{"id":25451,"date":"2019-04-10T14:16:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T06:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cla.ntnu.edu.tw\/?p=25451"},"modified":"2022-05-11T16:18:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T08:18:25","slug":"2019-ucla-ntnu-taiwan-studies-initiative-conference-sinophone-studies-interdisciplinary-perspectives-and-critical-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cla.ntnu.edu.tw\/index.php\/en\/2019\/04\/10\/2019-ucla-ntnu-taiwan-studies-initiative-conference-sinophone-studies-interdisciplinary-perspectives-and-critical-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 UCLA-NTNU Taiwan Studies Initiative Conference: Sinophone Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Critical Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2019 UCLA-NTNU Taiwan Studies Initiative Conference<\/p>\n<div id=\"eventDateTime\">Friday, April 12, 2019 &#8211; Saturday, April 13, 2019Friday, April 12, 9:00 a.m.\u20135:30 p.m.: Royce Hall 314 and 306<br \/>\nSaturday, April 13, 9:00 a.m.\u20136:00 p.m.: Faculty Center Sequoia Room<br \/>\nUCLA<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6987\" src=\"http:\/\/140.122.64.119\/cla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/986_718414e2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cla.ntnu.edu.tw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/986_718414e2.jpg 418w, https:\/\/www.cla.ntnu.edu.tw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/986_718414e2-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><em>Image credit: Tang Chang (1934-1990, Thailand), \u201cUntitled 5\u201d (1960, oil on canvas)<\/em><\/div>\n<div>Since the initial conceptualization of Sinophone studies over a decade ago as a field that examines Sinitic-language cultures and communities marked by difference and heterogeneity around the world, scholarly work in the field has become more and more interdisciplinary, involving not only literary and cinema studies, but also history, anthropology, musicology, linguistics, art history, dance, and others. Now we routinely see \u201cSinophone\u201d as a specific marker with multiple implications that are no longer merely\u00a0denotative, enabling, on the one hand, marginalized voices, sites, and practices to come into view, and, on the other hand, an expanded conversation with such fields as postcolonial studies, settler colonial studies, immigration studies, ethnic studies, queer studies, and area studies. There have been vibrant debates at the definitional and conceptual level about critical issues and standpoints, such as the pros and cons of the diasporic framework (diaspora as history versus diaspora as value), the difficulty of overcoming Chineseness, the strength and pitfalls of language-determined identities, imperial and anti-imperial politics,\u00a0racialization and self-determination of minority peoples, place-based cultural practices, the dialectics between roots and routes, and many others, and presently, scholars in disciplines other than literary and cinema studies have begun to join these conversations. The increasingly interdisciplinary nature of\u00a0Sinophone studies compels us to take stock, at this particular historical conjuncture, of where this\u00a0inherently interdisciplinary field has been, where it is going, and where it might go in the future.<\/div>\n<div>Organized by\u00a0Shu-mei Shih, Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, Comparative Literature, and Asian American Studies, UCLA; Honorary Chair Professor in the Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature, National Taiwan Normal University<\/div>\n<p>Day 1: Friday, April 12, Royce Hall<\/p>\n<div id=\"eventDateTime\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_fullwidth_EventDisplay_StoryListUpdatePanel\">\n<div id=\"printTools\">\n<div>\n<div>8:30 am:\u00a0Registration and Coffee &amp; Tea<\/div>\n<div>9:00-9:30 am:\u00a0Welcome and Opening Remarks<br \/>\nCindy Fan, Vice Provost for International Studies and Global Engagement, UCLA<br \/>\nNikky Lin, Professor of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature, NTNU<br \/>\nDavid Schaberg, Dean of Humanities, UCLA<br \/>\nMin Zhou, Director of the Asia Pacific Center, UCLA<br \/>\nShu-mei Shih, Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA9:30-11:00 am:\u00a0Panel 1: Theoretical Considerations (1)<br \/>\nModerator: Shu-mei Shih, UCLA<br \/>\nHenning Kl\u00f6ter, Humboldt University of Berlin,<br \/>\n<em>Articulations of \u201cOther\u201d Chinese Languages: The Sociolinguistic Past as a Testing Ground for Present Concepts of the Sinophone<\/em><br \/>\nYinde Zhang, Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3<br \/>\n<em>Geocritical Sinophone and Transgressive Community<br \/>\n<\/em>E.K. Tan, Stony Brook University<br \/>\n<em>The Parasite: An Unapologetic Posturing of a Sinophone Position<br \/>\n<\/em>Howard Chiang, UC Davis<br \/>\n<em>Stonewall Aside: Why Global Queer Theory Needs Sinophone Studies<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n11:15 am-12:45 pm:\u00a0Panel 2: Theoretical Considerations (2)<br \/>\nModerator: Tak Fujitani (University of Toronto\/UCLA)<br \/>\nChien-heng Wu, National Tsing Hua University<br \/>\n<em>Enjoy Your Sinophone! The Current Debate and the Path Forward<br \/>\n<\/em>Alvin K. Wong, University of Hong Kong<br \/>\n<em>Queer Hong Kong as a Sinophone Method<br \/>\n<\/em>Andrew D. Wong, CSU East Bay<br \/>\n<em>Views from the Margins: Language Politics in the Sinophone<br \/>\n<\/em>Mark McConaghy, National Sun Yat Sen University<br \/>\n<em>Xie Xuehong and the Ambiguities of Taiwanese Revolutionary Practice: Sinophone Studies Beyond Binaries<br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>12:45-1:45 pm: Lunch Break<\/p>\n<p>1:45-3:15 pm: Panel 3: Sinophone Expressive Genres<br \/>\nModerator: Michael Berry (UCLA)<br \/>\nValentina Pedone, University of Florence<br \/>\n<em>Codeswitching as an Identity Defining Strategy in the Italian Sinophone Play \u201cTong Men-g\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em>Brian Bernards, University of Southern California<br \/>\n<em>Ann Hui\u2019s Sinophone Intervention in Vietnam\u2019s Transpacific Cinematic Legacy<br \/>\n<\/em>Susan Jung Su, National Taiwan Normal University<br \/>\n<em>Other London, Other Taipei: Inflected Other-worlds of Migrant Workers in \u201cDirty Pretty Things\u201d and \u201cPinoy\u00a0Sunday\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nRebecca Ehrenwirth, NYU Shanghai<br \/>\n<em>Painting the Borders of the Sinophone Canvas: Intertextuality in Sinophone Art from Europe<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n3:20-5:30 pm: Concurrent Graduate Student Workshops<\/p>\n<p>Royce 314:\u00a0Media Studies<br \/>\nModerator: Junko Yamazaki, UCLA<br \/>\nEllen Chang, University of Washington<br \/>\n<em>Cacophonous Symphony: Aurality, Temporality, and Transportability of the Sinophonescapes<br \/>\n<\/em>Yiyang Hou, UCLA<br \/>\n<em>Translating the Dissonance: Problematizing the Audioscape of Sinophone Cinema through Two CaseStudies<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em>M. Antonio Lizada, University of Hong Kong<br \/>\n<em>The Rise of the Queer Chinese-Filipino Son: \u201cMano Po 4\u201d (I Am the Legal Wife) and the Political Economy of Queer Chinese-Filipino Liminality<br \/>\n<\/em>Sam Mak, National Cheng Kung University<br \/>\n<em>The Politics of &#8220;Borders&#8221;: the Adaptation of King of Chess and the Pre-handover Hong Kong<br \/>\n<\/em>Kun Xian Shen, UCLA<br \/>\n<em>A Media Archaeology of Sinophonic Popular Music: Investigating the Curious Case of Taiwanese Disco Singers in the 1980s<\/em><br \/>\nSabrina Yunzhu Tao, University of Oregon<br \/>\n<em>Building a Utopian Space: Amoy-dialect Cinema and Diaspora Experience in Post-war Hong Kong (Late 1950s-60s)<\/em><br \/>\nKa Lee Wong, USC<br \/>\n<em>Alternative Space in State Mouthpiece: rethinking \u201cventriloquism\u201d and politics of Singaporean \u201cdialect\u201d broadcasting in Royston Tan\u2019s \u201cEat Already\u201d?<\/em><br \/>\nJiyu Zhang, Leiden University<br \/>\n<em>Speaking of Us: Borderlands, Soundscapes, and Ethnic Minorities in Chinese Cinema<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nRoyce 306:\u00a0Interdisciplinary Studies (1)<br \/>\nModerator: Brian Bernards (USC)<br \/>\nTzu-chin Chen, UCLA<br \/>\n<em>Landscaping Southeast Asian Immigrants in Sinophone Community: Cinematic Resistance in \u201cPinoy-Sunday\u201dand \u201cYe Zai\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nWenchi Li, University of Zurich<br \/>\n<em>The Possibility of Shaping Sinophone Poetry<br \/>\n<\/em>Yiqing Li, UC San Diego<br \/>\n<em>Belatedness, Misunderstanding, and Manipulation: West European Abstract Painting in Post-Mao China<br \/>\n<\/em>Shirley Lung, Johns Hopkins University<br \/>\n<em>Intersectional Christianity: Sinophone American Church Organizations and the Making of Taiwaneseness<br \/>\n<\/em>Ellie Tse, UCLA<br \/>\n<em>Queering Resistance in Wu Tsang\u2019s \u201cDuilian\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em>Yukun Zeng, University of Chicago<br \/>\n<em>Sinophonic Voice from the Chronotopic Point of View: A Linguistic Anthropological Analysis of Dujing in Sinophonic Societies<\/em><br \/>\nLiao Zhang, Michigan State University<br \/>\n<em>Where Were the Chinese Gone? A Russian Border Town and Its Lost Chinese Community, 1930s- 1940s<br \/>\n<\/em>Cui Zhou, UCLA<br \/>\n<em>From Silence to Heteroglossia: Rewriting a Sinophone History in Center Stage<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nDay 2: Saturday, April 13, Faculty Center (Sequoia Room)<br \/>\n9:00-10:30 am:\u00a0Panel 4: Sound and Stage<br \/>\nModerator: Ari Heinrich, UC San Diego<br \/>\nNancy Yunhwa Rao, Rutgers University<br \/>\n<em>Cantonese Opera and Sinophone-Soundscapes<br \/>\n<\/em>Emily Wilcox, University of Michigan<br \/>\n<em>Written Out: Dance and the Sinophone<br \/>\n<\/em>Nathanel Amar, University of Hong Kong<br \/>\n<em>Beyond Musical, Political and Linguistic Boundaries: The Influence of the Hong Kong Rock Band Beyond in the PRC during the 1990s<\/em><br \/>\nHo Chak Law, University of Michigan &amp; Hong Kong Baptist University<br \/>\n<em>Sinophone\u2019s Suffix Being Musical: Jon Jang as a Case Study<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n10:45 am-12:30 pm:\u00a0Panel 5: Historiography and Ethnography<br \/>\nModerator: Henning Kl\u00f6ter, Humbolt University of Berlin<br \/>\nJason Lim, University of Wollongong<br \/>\n<em>The Singapore Chinese as a Sinophone Community, 1945-1990<br \/>\n<\/em>Ngoh Tho Nguyen, Ho Chi Min University<br \/>\n<em>&#8216;Taking Root Wherever You Land&#8217;: The Liturgical Transformation of Popular Cults among Ethnic Chinese in Contemporary Vietnam<\/em><br \/>\nXiaojian Zhao, UC Santa Barbara<br \/>\n<em>\u201cTransnationalism\u201d Revisited: A Historical Perspective on Chinese Language Newspapers in the United States<br \/>\n<\/em>Yanshuo Zhang, Stanford University<br \/>\n<em>Entrepreneurs of the National Past: Contemporary China\u2019s Indigenous Cultural Writing and the Ethnicization of\u00a0<\/em>Zhonghua minzu<em>(Chinese race)<\/em>12:30-1:30 pm: Lunch Break1:30-3:00 pm:\u00a0Panel 6: Literature and Translation<br \/>\nModerator: Christopher Hanscom (UCLA)<br \/>\nLily Wong, American University<br \/>\n<em>Solidarities and Other Desires: Sinophonic Affects in Kyle Dargan\u2019s \u201cAnagnorisis\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em>Hyelim Koh, Pusan National University<br \/>\n<em>Glocalism and Chinese Diasporas&#8217; Identity<br \/>\n<\/em>Tzu-yun Sharon Lai, National Taiwan Normal University<br \/>\n<em>Erasing the Translators: A History of Pirated Translation in Taiwan, 1949-1987<br \/>\n<\/em>Shu-hui Lin, National Taiwan Normal University<br \/>\n<em>Cultural Context of Sinophone Travelogues during Taiwan&#8217;s Martial Law Period<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n3:15-5:15 pm:\u00a0Graduate Student Workshops<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Interdisciplinary Studies (2)<br \/>\nModerator: E. 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Tan, Stonybrook University<br \/>\nMelissa Mei-Lin Chan, USC<br \/>\n<em>Sinophone Futures: Technology, Language, and the Voice in Hong Kong Digital Media<br \/>\n<\/em>Spencer Chen, UCLA<br \/>\n<em>The Politics of Representation in and through the Making of Mandarin Dubbing in Postwar Taiwan<br \/>\n<\/em>Chi-yu Lin, National Taiwan University<br \/>\n<em>Relationing the Cold War Atmosphere: Notes toward a General Ecology of the Sinophone<br \/>\n<\/em>Xuefei Ma, University of Arizona<br \/>\n<em>Thinking about Aesthetic Sinophonicity: Engendered Forces, Trans(re)lational Bodies and \u201cWomen\u2019s Writings\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nLin-chin Tsai, UCLA<br \/>\n<em>Sinophone as a Geopolitical Marker: Conjunctive Approach of Cultural Geography and Settler Colonial Criticism in Taiwan Cinema<br \/>\n<\/em>Marta Paolesse, Roma Tre University<br \/>\n<em>Alteration of Memory in the Literature of the Chinese Diaspora: Sinophone Memory Studies?<br \/>\n<\/em>Nicolas Testerman, UCLA<br \/>\n<em>Life Ex-Stasis: A Brief Typology of Modern Sinophone Life Philosophies<br \/>\n<\/em>Eloise Wright, UC Berkeley<br \/>\n<em>Borderlands History and the Sinophone in the 16th and 17th Centuries<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n5:30-6:00pm:\u00a0Concluding Reflections<br \/>\nModerator: Shu-mei Shih6:00pm:\u00a0Reception<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>The conference is part of the UCLA-National Taiwan Normal University Taiwan Initiative, and is supported by the UCLA Asia Pacific Center Taiwan Studies Lectureship with funding from NTNU, and from the Department of International and Cross-Strait Education, Ministry of Education, Taiwan, represented by the Education Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Los Angeles.<\/em><\/div>\n<div>Sponsor(s):\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.international.ucla.edu\/asia\">Asia Pacific Center<\/a>, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los 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