China – Conflict, Justice, Decolonization

2026 年 7 月 28 日

The Quotidian and the Utopian of Techno-modernity: Unbinding China’s Post-Socialist Temporality in Urban Media Artefacts

Article by Hao Wang and Chenhao Ye Abstract: This article critically examines the post-socialist temporality of China’s techno-developmentalism. By identifying “temporal grammars” and “temporal vocabularies” of everyday media artefacts in Shenzhen, we show how China’s post-socialist temporality configures the interplay of past, present, and future while aligning temporal horizons across […]

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2026 年 3 月 20 日

WeChat as Dispositif: Extraterritorial Digital Governance and Silence of Tibetans in Taiwan

Article by Dolma Tsering Abstract: This study examines how the Chinese government (People’s Republic of China) maintains extraterritorial control over Tibetans in Taiwan through digital platforms, specifically WeChat. Drawing on the theoretical lens of the dispositif (apparatus) developed by Michel Foucault and further elaborated upon by Gilles Deleuze and Giorgio […]

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2026 年 1 月 14 日

Klara Blum’s Self-Healing through Romanticizing China in The Shepherd and the Weaver

Article by Chung-Jen Chao Abstract: Klara Blum’s semi-autobiographical novel The Shepherd and the Weaver (Der Hirte und die Weberin) is read in this article as a literary project of self-healing, in which an idealized image of China compensates for the author’s experiences of exile, loss and marginalization. By contrasting Blum’s […]

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2025 年 12 月 1 日

Ethnicity Between the State and the Market: Reading Third Sister Liu (1960) and A Singing Fairy (2010)

Article by Sergey Zanchevskiy Abstract: This paper examines how ethnic minority cinema in the People’s Republic of China reflects the shifts in state ideology and cultural and national politics. Drawing on the works of scholars such as Paul Clark, Dru Gladney, and Vanessa Frangville, among others, I examine how two […]

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2025 年 8 月 7 日

The Relevance of Post-colonial Imagination in 21st Century Asia

Event Report Article by Serena Di Maria On May 26, 2025, the workshop The Relevance of Postcolonial Imagination in 21st Century Asia was hosted by the International Center for Cultural Studies (ICCS-NYCU) and the International Master’s Degree Program in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IACS, NYCU) at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung […]

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2024 年 12 月 25 日

Physical Presence of Wang Bing in His Documentaries: An Expression of Minjian Ethics

Article by Sergey Zanchevskiy Abstract: This paper investigates the significance of the filmmaker’s physical presence in Wang Bing’s documentary cinema, analyzing how his shadow, voice, and interactions with the diegetic world shape both the aesthetical and ethical dimensions of his artworks. While Wang Bing’s films are often associated with observational […]

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2024 年 12 月 4 日

Moments of Loss: On Migrant Worker’s Informal Cultivation at Periphery Shanghai

Article by Qi Li Abstract: This research essay pays attention to a grey modality of urban cultivation that differs from the practice of home gardening driven by civic participation purposes, environmental concerns, or marketization strategies. Instead, it is a type of small-scale urban agriculture practiced by Chinese domestic migrant workers […]

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2020 年 11 月 16 日

Infrastructure and Its Dark Side

Article by LI QI. Abstract This article briefly discusses the role of infrastructure in the history of capitalism and the expansion of the state. Recent studies on infrastructure focus on its ontological perspective, arguing the ideological function that is visible upon the built network of infrastructure. According to Marxist theory […]

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