Updated on 2024/10/10

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HSIAO, Li Chun
 
Affiliation
Faculty of International Research and Education, School of International Liberal Studies
Job title
Professor
Degree
Ph.D. ( State University of New York at Buffalo )
Ph.D. ( State University of New York at Buffalo )

Research Experience

  • 2024.08
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    Now

    Waseda University   Faculty of International Research and Education School of International Liberal Studies   Professor

Education Background

  • 1998.08
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    2004.09

    State University of New York at Buffalo   Graduate School of Arts and Science   Comparative Literature  

  • 1991.09
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    1995.06

    National Taiwan University   Graduate School of Liberal Arts   Foreign Languages and Literatures  

  • 1987.09
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    1991.07

    National Chung Hsing University   College of Liberal Arts   Foreign Languages and Literatures  

Research Areas

  • English literature and literature in the English language

Research Interests

  • Postcolonial Theory, Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures, Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, Literary and Cultural Theories, Psychoanalysis, Modernism, Contemporary Taiwan literature and Culture

 

Papers

  • Staging the World: Cross-Cultural (Il)literacy, Taiwan’s Mobile Stage Phenomenon, and Shen Chao-liang’s Stage Series

    HSIAO, Li-Chun

    Critical Arts South-North Cultural and Media Studies   34 ( 5 ) 87 - 106  2020.12  [Refereed]  [International journal]

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    ABSTRACT
    Through the lens of the photographer Shen Chao-liang, this paper examines the cultural ramifications of the mobile stages (fitted into and folded out of the backs of modified trucks) of Taiwanese roving vaudeville troupes—a common sight in the towns outside of Taiwan’s cities that, however, remains largely oblivious to public and media attention. What characterizes these stages in recent decades are the easily recognizable “global images” featured prominently on the backdrops—such as the Sydney Opera House, Hello Kitty, Arc de Triomphe, etc.—often in gaudy colours and tacky patterns, sometimes oddly juxtaposed. Based on both the mobile stage phenomenon and Shen’s representations, I explore what cultural literacy might entail and mean when it comes to cross-cultural encounters, as well as the “self-emptying” gesture in Taiwanese society’s enthusiastic embracement of “the world” from which, it perceives, it is relegated to insignificance. Shen sought to capture the image of the plebeian society in Taiwan by documenting the roving vaudeville troupes, but wound up focusing on the stage that showcases little to none of the cultural characteristics or elements of Taiwan known to either the locals or the outsiders, enacting a form of art mediation that does not simply suture the constitutive split in its photographic representations.

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  • (Un)timely Reflections: Reading the Chinese Translation of Shu-mei Shih’s Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific

    HSIAO, Li-Chun

    Chung Wai Literary Quarterly   43 ( 1 ) 213 - 222  2014.03

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  • Theoretical Thinking on the Fault Lines of Theory, Commonsense, and Reform

    HSIAO, Li-Chun

    Chung Wai Literary Quarterly   43 ( 1 ) 15 - 58  2014  [Refereed]

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  • Color (Un)conscious: Psychoanalysis, Resistance, and the Specter/Spectacle of Race

    HSIAO, Li-Chun

    Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies   36 ( 1 ) 159 - 187  2010  [Refereed]

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  • The Corruption of Slaves into Tyrants’: Toussaint, Haiti, and the Writing of Postcolonial Trauma postcolonial trauma

    HSIAO, Li-Chun

    JOURNAL OF THE MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION   41 ( 1 ) 67 - 77  2008  [Refereed]

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  • The Black Body and Representations of the (In)human.” Thematic issue “Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror

    HSIAO, Li-Chun

    CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture   9 ( 1 )  2007  [Refereed]

  • Thanatos Gains the Upper Hand: Sadism, Jouissance, and Libidinal Economy

    HSIAO, Li-Chun

    Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies   29 ( 1 ) 47 - 66  2003  [Refereed]

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  • The Genes of Theory: An Interview with Yu-cheng Lee on Theory, Times, and Creative Writing

    HSIAO, Li-Chun

    Chung Wai Literary Quarterly   46 ( 4 ) 199 - 217  2017.12

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  • Taiwan and Theory: A Forum on the Keywords Taiwan Project and the Local Vocabulary of Theory

    HSIAO, Li-Chun

    Chung Wai Literary Quarterly   46 ( 4 ) 219 - 255  2017.12

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  • Through the Lens of Your Own Making: An Interview with Chung-Hsiung Lai on the Question of Theory

    HSIAO, Li-Chun

    Chung Wai Literary Quarterly   46 ( 2 ) 197 - 220  2017.06

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  • Tales of the Forking Paths of Theory: An Interview with Liao Ping-hui on the Question of Theory

    HSIAO, Li-Chun

    Chung Wai Literary Quarterly   45 ( 4 ) 251 - 274  2016.12

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  • Life of Theory/Theory in Life: An Interview with Hsien-hao Sebastian Liao on the Question of Theory

    HSIAO, Li-Chun

    Chung Wai Literary Quarterly   45 ( 2 ) 197 - 226  2016.06

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  • Flux and Void: An Interview with Chaoyang Liao on the Question of Theory

    HSIAO, Li-Chun

    Chung Wai Literary Quarterly   44 ( 3 ) 223 - 246  2015.09

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Books and Other Publications

  • The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan: Freedom in the Trenches

    Li-Chun Hsiao( Part: Sole author)

    Lexington Books  2022.08 ISBN: 1498569099  [Refereed]

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    The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan: Freedom in the Trenches argues that what appeared to be a "genesis" of new literature engendered by the modernist movement in postwar Taiwan was made possible only through the "splendid isolation" within the Cold War world order sustaining the bubble in which "Free China" lived on borrowed time. The book explores the trenches of freedom in whose confines the soldier-poets' were surrealistically acquiesced to roam free under the aegis of "pure literature" and the buffer zone created by the US presence in Taiwan—and the modernists' expatriate writing from America—that aided their moderated deviance from the official line. It critically examines the anti-establishment character and gesture in the movement phase in terms of its entanglements with the state apparatus and the US-aided literary establishment. Taiwan's modernists counterbalance their retrospectively perceived excess and nuanced forms of exit with a series of spiritual as well as actual returns, upon which earlier traditionalist undercurrents would surface. This modernism's mixed legacies, with its aesthetic avant-gardism marrying politically moderate or conservative penchants, date back to its bifurcated mode of existence and operation of separating the realm of the aesthetic from everything else in life during the Cold War.

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  • The Indivisible Globe, the Indissoluble Nation: Universality, Postcoloniality, and Nationalism in the Age of Globalization

    HSIAO, Li-Chun( Part: Sole author)

    Stuttgart: ibidem Press, distributed by Columbia University Pres  2021 ISBN: 9783838215242  [Refereed]

  • Keywords for Theory/Taiwan, Book chapter: De/fault

    HSIAO, Li-Chun, Eds.Dung-sheng Chen, Chia-ling Mei, Chaoyang Liao, Shu-mei Shih( Part: Contributor)

    Taipei: Unitas  2019.03  [Refereed]

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  • Comparatizing Taiwan/ Book chapter: Far-fetched Lands: The Caribbean, Taiwan, and Submarine Relations

    HSIAO, Li-Chun, Eds.Ping-huei Liao, Shu-mei Shih( Part: Contributor)

    New York: Routledge  2015  [Refereed]

  • Feminist Criticism / Postcolonialism

    Eds. Kuei-fen Chiu, Li-Chun Hsiao

    Taipei: Council of Cultural Development of Executive Yuan, Taiwan  2010

  • Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror/ Book chapter: The Black Body and Representations of the (In)human.” Thematic issue “Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror

    HSIAO.Li-Chun, Eds. Sophia, A. McClennen, Henry James Morello

    Purdue University Press  2010 ISBN: 155753568X  [Refereed]

  • This Shipwreck of Fragments”: Historical Memory, Imaginary Identities, and Postcolonial Geography in Caribbean Culture and Literature

    HSIAO, Li-Chun, Ed. Li-Chun Hsiao( Part: Edit)

    London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing  2009  [Refereed]

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Presentations

  • A "state of the field” report on the studies of "critical theory" based in Asia

    Li-Chun Hsiao  [Invited]

    The “What is Global Critical Theory?” Seminar organized by the Goldsmiths Center for Philosophy and Critical Thought, University of London 

    Presentation date: 2023.12

 

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Sub-affiliation

  • Faculty of International Research and Education   Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies

Internal Special Research Projects

  • A Cold War Division of Labor: The Aesthetics of Dread and the Rhetoric of Freedom in postwar Taiwan Literature

    2023  

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    A working paper based on this project was presented in an academicinternational conference held by Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea onJune 9, 2023. The outcome of the research has been organized in a paper format for journalsubmission consideration. In addition to this, the project has beenincorporated into the theoretical framework of a potential book project. 

  • Facing the Music: Calypso, Carnival Masking, and Postcolonial Resistance in The Dragon Can’t Dance

    2021  

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    This is a project for the academic year from Apr 01 2021 to Mar 31 2022.  During this period, I published a book on postcolonial studies that is related to one of the topics covered by this project--postcolonial resistance.Publication information about my book can be found at the link below:https://cup.columbia.ed/book/the-indivisible-globe-the-indissoluble-nation/9783838215242 Li-Chun Hsiao, The Indivisible Globe, the Indissoluble Nation: Universality, Postcoloniality, and Nationalism in the Age of Globalization.  Stuttgart: ibidem Press, distributed by Columbia University Press, 2021.

  • Borderline Theory: Charting Theoretical Frontiers in Caribbean Writings

    2020  

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    The project is in the stage of wrapping up the writing to be submitted for conference presentation consideration.  The draft received positive feedbacks from the scholars attended in an on-line workshop. The positive comments have further facilitated the writing moving forward in a smooth pace.   

  • Staging the World: Cross-Cultural (Il)literacy, the Mobile Stage Phenomenon in Taiwan, and Shen Chao-liang’s Stage

    2020  

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    With the support of this grant, the project has produced one journal article that has been accepted and published by a renowned journal, CRITICAL ARTS-SOUTH-NORTH CULTURAL AND MEDIA STUDIES with Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). The publication has acknowledged this financial support. 

  • Soft-core Totalitarianism, Hard-core Modernism, and the Fascination of What's Not Difficult

    2019  

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    A working paper based on this project was presented in an academic international workshop held by American Studies Institute at Seoul National University. The project has been organized in a paper format for journal submission consideration. In addition to this, the project has been incorporated into a potential book project.