Taiwan Lit and the Global Sinosphere

Dissertations 論文

Given the substantial number of theses and dissertations on Taiwan literature authored by graduate students from Taiwan-based universities, Taiwan Lit will refrain from listing them all. For those interested, we kindly recommend referring to the National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan.

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    Women Writing War Memories: Hayashi Fumiko, Nieh Hualing, and Zhang Ling

    2022

    Author: Jiang, Linshan
    Supervisor: Yunte Huang, Kuo-Ch'ing Tu
    Institution: Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies; University of California, Santa Barbara

    New Localism: Strategic Linguistic Maneuvers in Sinophone Cinemas of Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong, 2000-2015

    2022

    Author: Chen, Michelle I-hsiao
    Supervisor: Kirsten Cather and Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang
    Institution: Department of Asian Studies; University of Texas at Austin

    Scientism and Cultural Resistance in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: 1885- 2019

    2022

    Author: McElroy, Jeffrey Frederick
    Supervisor: Kirsten Cather
    Institution: Department of Asian Studies; University of Texas at Austin

    The Experimental Aesthetics of Global Sinophone Theatre: The Present, the Absent, and the Avant-Garde

    2021

    Author: Chu, Po-Hsien
    Supervisor: James Harding
    Institution: School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies; University of Maryland

    The Right to Cultural Participation Public Access to and Enjoyment of Museum Collections in the English and Taiwanese Museums

    2021

    Author: Ku, Hsiao‐Mei
    Supervisor: Janet Ulph, Stephen Riley
    Institution: School of Law; University of Leicester

    Documentary as Alternative Practice: Situating Contemporary Female Filmmakers in Sinophone Cinemas

    2021

    Author: Chen, Novia Shih-Shan
    Supervisor: Leung, Helen Hok-Sze
    Institution: Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies; Simon Fraser University

    Assembling Solidarity: Proletarian Arts and Internationalism in East Asia

    2021

    Author: Michielsen, Edwin
    Supervisor: Sakaki, Atsuko
    Institution: East Asian Studies; University of Toronto

    徐復觀與當代臺灣文學藝術和思想文化

    2021

    Author: Wu, Sijie
    Supervisor: Shuangyi Zhu
    Institution: Graduate Institute for Taiwan Studies; Xiamen University

    閩臺民間歷史記憶的文學書寫——閩南語歌仔冊在臺灣

    2021

    Author: Cai, Minghong
    Supervisor: Kean Huang
    Institution: College of Chinese Language and Literature; Fujian Normal University

    明鄭文人群體研究

    2021

    Author: Jia, Feng
    Supervisor: Qingwei Xiao
    Institution: School of Liberal Arts; Minnan Normal University

    新舊之變:臺灣新文學的發生研究

    2021

    Author: Zou, Jianying
    Supervisor: Jiyang Xu
    Institution: School of Liberal Arts; Minnan Normal University

    去帝國——日據末期臺灣小說的文化抵製與書寫策略

    2021

    Author: Lin, Juanfang
    Supervisor: Lili Zhu
    Institution: College of Chinese Language and Literature; Fujian Normal University

    Taiwanese Eyes on the Modern: Cold War Dance Diplomacy and American Modern Dances in Taiwan, 1950–1980

    2020

    Author: Lee, Tsung-Hsin (Joda)
    Supervisor: Hannah Kosstrin
    Institution: Department of Dance; The Ohio State University

    A Bite of Taiwan: Culinary Intimacy in Contemporary Taiwanese Food Narratives

    2020

    Author: Pan, Chien-wei
    Supervisor: Christopher Rosenmeier
    Institution: School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures; University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)

    Recognising Taiwan in Sight and Sound: Localisation in the Music of Post-TNC

    2020

    Author: Chia-Yu Chang
    Supervisor: Jacqueline Maingard & Guido Heldt
    Institution: Department of Music; University of Bristol (United Kingdom)

    Taiwanese Identity and the Performing Arts: the Development of Programming at the National Performing Arts Centre

    2020

    Author: Meng-Yu Lai
    Supervisor: Lorraine Lim and Hye-Kyung Lee
    Institution: Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies; Birkbeck College, University of London (United Kingdom)

    Recognising Taiwan in Sight and Sound - Glocalisation in the Music of Post-TNC Films

    2019

    Author: Chang, Jade
    Institution: Department of Music; University of Bristol (United Kingdom)

    The Fantastic Realism of Second Generation Taiwan New Cinema

    2019

    Author: Hsieh Chin-Mei
    Supervisor: Chris Berry, Jinhee Choi
    Institution: Department of Film Studies; King's College London (United Kingdom)

    Mainlander as an Evolving Identity: A Study of Eight Works by Taiwan's Second-generation Mainlander Writers

    2019

    Author: Yu-ting Huang
    Supervisor: Gloria Davies
    Institution: School of Language, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics; Monash University (Australia)

    Heroine of One Thousand Faces: Memoirs by Four Women Soldiers in the Great War and Postwar Period

    2019

    Author: Hong, Chenwen
    Supervisor: Margaret R. Higonnet
    Institution: Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies; University of Connecticut

    Performing the Lyrical: Lyrical Essay and the Written Vernacular Mandarin Tradition in Postwar Taiwan

    2018

    Author: Wang, Ming-Huei
    Supervisor: Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang
    Institution: Department of Asian Studies; University of Texas at Austin

    Representing Japanese Taipei: Studies in urban development and architectural style (1895-1930)

    2018

    Author: Fan, Ya-Ting
    Supervisor: Paul Davies
    Institution: History of Art, Department of History; University of Reading (United Kingdom)

    The 1990s Gender Progressiveness in Taiwan

    2018

    Author: Shih, Mu-min
    Supervisor: Chien-hsin Tsai
    Institution: Department of Asian Studies; University of Texas at Austin

    Orientating Desires: The Queer Exotic and Lesbian Diaspora in Transnational Chinese Cinemas

    2018

    Author: Ong, Yuin-Ting
    Supervisor: Song Hwee Lim
    Institution: Gender Studies Programme; The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

    Questioning Homeland, Sensing Home: Performance and the Negotiation of Identity Construction in Cold War China and Taiwan

    2018

    Author: Jasmine Yu-Hsing Chen
    Supervisor: Huang, Xincun Nicole
    Institution: Department of Asian Languages and Cultures; University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Cinematizing Chinese Opera, Performing Chinese Identities, 1945-1971

    2018

    Author: Law, Ho Chak
    Supervisor: Joseph S. C. Lam
    Institution: Department of Musicology; University of Michigan

    Decentering Chineseness: Towards Affective Transsensorial Cinemas

    2018

    Author: Sim, Jiaying
    Supervisor: Martin-Jones, David and Garwood, Ian
    Institution: School of Culture & Creative Arts; University of Glasgow (United Kingdom)

    Questions of Chineseness: A study of China Wind Pop Music and the Post-1990s Generation in the PRC, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the UK

    2018

    Author: Chen-Yu Lin
    Supervisor: Haekyung Um and Sara Cohen
    Institution: Department of Music; University of Liverpool

    On the Road, Above the Sea: Post-geographic and Bodily Epistemologies in Taiwanese Travelogues

    2017

    Author: Jessie, Ssu-Fang L.
    Supervisor: Bert Scruggs
    Institution: East Asian Studies; University of California, Irvine

    Queer Kinship in Chinese-Language Films by Women Directors

    2017

    Author: Lin Shu-Yi
    Supervisor: Richard Dyer, Chris Berry
    Institution: Department of Film Studies; King's College London (United Kingdom)

    The Cultural Construction of Taiwan in the Literatures of Taiwan, China, and the United States

    2017

    Author: Lin, Yu-Fang
    Supervisor: Babacar M'Baye, Masood Raja
    Institution: Department of English; Kent State University

    Consuming Koreanness in Contemporary Taiwan: Inter-Asia Referencing in the Post-Cold War East Asia

    2016

    Author: Lin, Tien-wen
    Supervisor: Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang
    Institution: Department of Asian Studies; University of Texas at Austin

    Memories of Becoming Modern: Sinophone American Cinemas of Passing

    2016

    Author: Coe, Jason
    Supervisor: Esther C.M. Yau
    Institution: Department of Asian Studies; University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

    Screen Culture, Visual Power, and the Beyond: A Transmedia Archaeology of the Cinema in Colonial Taiwan, 1895-1945

    2016

    Author: Wen, Jo-han (Laura)
    Supervisor: Nicole Huang
    Institution: Chinese/East Asian Literature and Visual Culture; University of Wisconsin-Madison

    The Transnational-Translational Modernity: Language and Sexuality in Colonial Taiwan And Korea

    2016

    Author: Chen, Pei Jean
    Supervisor: Naoki Sakai
    Institution: Department of Asian Studies; Cornell University

    Make Love and War: Chinese Popular Romance in Greater East Asia, 1937-1945

    2016

    Author: Lu, Chun-Yu
    Supervisor: Lingchei Letty Chen, Robert Hegel
    Institution: Department of East Asian Languages and Culture; Washington University, St. Louis

    From Empire to Motherland: Writings and the Politics of Translation in the Literatures of Transcolonial Taiwan, 1937-1960

    2016

    Author: Pan, Mei-Chen
    Supervisor: Jonathan Zwicker, Yopie Prins
    Institution: Department of Comparative Literature; University of Michigan

    Exhibiting Minority Culture: An Exploration of Exhibitions of lndigenous Culture in Museums of Taiwan

    2016

    Author: Ching-yueh Hsieh
    Supervisor: Sandell, Richard; Marstine, Janet
    Institution: School of Museum Studies; University of Leicester

    Niezi and Its Legacies: Tracing the Emergence of Gay and Queer Subcultures in Taiwan

    2016

    Author: Chih-Chi Ting
    Supervisor: David Alderson
    Institution: School of Arts, Languages and Cultures; The University of Manchester

    Bridging Art and the Mainstream: The Cinema of Director Chang Tso-Chi

    2015

    Author: Chuang, Flora Fu-ying
    Supervisor: Katherine Arens, Chien-hsin Tsai
    Institution: Program in Comparative Literature; University of Texas at Austin

    Chen Chieh-jen's Works 1996-2002: Archiviolithic Archive, Site of Fabrication

    2015

    Author: Chou Yu-Ling
    Supervisor: Marko Daniels, Chris Berry
    Institution: Birkbeck College; University of London (United Kingdom)

    Life on the Move: Women's Migration and Re/making Home in Contemporary Chinese and Sinophone Literature and Film

    2015

    Author: Hsieh, Hsin-Chin (Evelyn)
    Supervisor: Alison Groppe
    Institution: Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures; University of Oregon

    Performing ‘Chinese-Ness’: Articulating Identities-Of-Becoming in the Works of Four Sinophone Theatre Director-Playwrights in the 1980S

    2015

    Author: Lim, Wah Guan
    Supervisor: Paul Steven Sangren
    Institution: Department of Asian Studies; Cornell University

    Writing "Taiwanese": The Péh-oē-jī Romanization and Identity Construction in Taiwan, 1860s-1990s

    2015

    Author: Su, Huang-Lan
    Supervisor: Chow, Kai-Wing
    Institution: East Asian Languages & Cultures; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Imaging Communities: Location Shooting as Place-making in Contemporary Chinese and Taiwanese Cinemas

    2015

    Author: Lo, Dennis Hwa
    Supervisor: Nicholas K. Browne
    Institution: School of Theater, Film and Television; University of California, Los Angeles

    Negotiating Culture Space and Identity: The Translation and Analysis of Tongzhi and Ku-er Fiction

    2015

    Author: Michelle M. Wu
    Supervisor: Dimitris Asimakoulas
    Institution: School of Literature and Languages; University of Surrey (United Kingdom)

    The Colonial Palimpsest in Taiwanese Literature

    2015

    Author: Wei-Ting Liou
    Supervisor: Robert Hampson
    Institution: Department of English; Royal Holloway, University of London (United Kingdom)

    Diary Film in America and in Taiwan: Narrative, Temporality, and Changing Technology

    2015

    Author: Lee, Ming-Yu
    Supervisor: Lury, Karen and Garwood, Ian
    Institution: Theatre Film and TV Studies; University of Glasgow (United Kingdom)

    A Critical History of Taiwanese Independent Documentary

    2014

    Author: Chen Pin-Chuan
    Supervisor: Chris Berry
    Institution: Department of Film Studies; King's College London (United Kingdom)

    Cinema as a Sensory Circuit: Film Production and Consumption in Contemporary Taiwan

    2014

    Author: Mon Yafeng
    Supervisor: Pasi Valiaho, Chris Berry
    Institution: Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths; University of London (United Kingdom)

    Crossing Borders in Taiwan New Cinema: Historiography, Popularity, Postcoloniality

    2013

    Author: Wang, Wan-jui
    Supervisor: Song Hwee Lim
    Institution: Film Studies Programme; University of Exeter (United Kingdom)

    Transnational Connections in Taiwan Cinema of the 21st Century

    2013

    Author: Lin, Yennan
    Supervisor: Song Hwee Lim
    Institution: Film Studies Programme; University of Exeter (United Kingdom)

    The Affective Politics of Home: Queer Familial Imaginations in 20th and 21st Century Chinese Theatre and Film

    2013

    Author: Hsu, Jen-Hao
    Supervisor: Amy Villarejo
    Institution: Department of Performing and Media Arts; Cornell University

    Translation Of Aesthetics: Local Performances In Colonial Taiwan, 1895-1945

    2012

    Author: Wang, Chun-Yen
    Supervisor: Haiping Yan
    Institution: Department of Performing and Media Arts; Cornell University

    Theorizing Ambivalence in Ang Lee's Transnational Cinema: The Discourse of Chinese Identity Between the Local and the Global

    2010

    Author: Chiang, Chih-Yun
    Supervisor: Darrin Hicks
    Institution: Department of Human Communication Studies; University of Denver

    The Antecedents of Taiwan New Cinema: The State of Taiwan Film in the 1960s and 1970s

    2010

    Author: Wicks, James Anthony
    Supervisor: Yingjin Zhang
    Institution: Department of Literature; University of California, San Diego

    Disrupting Boundaries of Desire: Gender, Sexuality, and Globalization in Tsai Ming-liang’s Cinema of the Oppressed

    2008

    Author: Chang, Kai-man
    Supervisor: Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang
    Institution: Program in Comparative Literature; University of Texas at Austin

    Melancholic Flâneries:Urban Images and Utopian Imagination in the Works of Charles Baudelaire, Virginia Woolf, Zhu Tianxin, and Tsai Ming-Liang

    2005

    Author: Hsu, Jen-yi
    Supervisor: Ban Wang
    Institution: Comparative Literature; Rutgers University

    The Age of Sadness: A Study of Naturalism in Taiwanese Literature under Japanese Colonization

    2003

    Author: Nai-huei Shen
    Supervisor: Gary Handwerk
    Institution: Comparative Literature; University of Washington

    RMale Homosexuality in Films from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong of the 1990s

    2001

    Author: Song Hwee Lim
    Institution: Oriental Studies; University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

    Fictionality and Reality in Narrative Discourse: A Reading of Four Contemporary Taiwanese Writers.

    2000

    Author: Chen, Li-fen
    Supervisor: Ching-hsien Wang (Yang Mu)
    Institution: Comparative Literature; University of Washington