Sixth Annual Conference on the History and Culture of Taiwan
Date: May 3 - May 4, 2002
Location: Washington University in St. Louis
"Mapping a New Cultural Geography:
Taipei, Hong Kong, and
Shanghai as Global Cities"
May 3, Friday
9:15-9:30 Lingchei Letty Chen: "Global City as the Logic of a New Cultural Geography"
9:30-11:00 Panel I: The Flow of Capital and the Making of "Global Cities"
| "Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Taipei in the Global Financial Urban System" | David R. Meyer Brown University |
| "Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall: Shanghai as a Global City in the Making" | Tsung-yi Michelle Huang Tamkang University, Taiwan |
| "Touring the Bund: Referential Networks of Meaning in Shanghai’s Tourism" | Ming-chun Ku New School for Social Research |
| Chair & Discussant | Andrew Mertha Washington University |
11:00-11:10 Break
11:10-12:40 Panel II: Problematic Narrative, Problematic City
| "Shanghai’s Essential Difference: Another Reading of Wang Anyi’s Changhen ge" | Robin Visser Valparaiso University |
| "Remembering Taipei: Loss and Found of the Past in the Space of Globalization" | Liangyi Yen University of California, Los Angeles |
| "Post-politics and Anthologizing the ‘Tri-city’" | Gang Xu University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Chair & Discussant | Steven Lewis, Rice University |
12:40-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Panel III: City Transportation as Cultural and Discursive Praxis
| "Portals and Pathways to Post-modern Nationhood: The Mass Rapid Transportation System in Taipei" | Anru Lee California State University, Sacramento |
| "Heralding Consumer Citizenship in Global Cities: Political and Commercial Subway Advertising in Taipei, Hong Kong and Shanghai" | Steven W. Lewis Rice University |
| "Riding the Red Line: From the Colonial Trains to Global Light Rail" | Joseph Allen University of Minnesota |
| Chair & Discussant | David Meyer Brown University |
3:30-3:40 Break
3:40-5:10 Panel IV: Historical Narratives of the Global City
| "Colonial Hong Kong as Cultural-Historical Space" | John M. Carroll Saint Louis University |
| "Being Colonized to be Global: The Cases of Taipei and Hong Kong" | Tsai-hsiu Tsai Academia Sinica, Taiwan |
| "Globalized City, World-Class City, Post-Modern City: Overlapping Narratives of Taibei at Millennium’s End" | Murray A. Rubinstein Baruch College, City University of New York |
| Chair & Discussant | Gardner Bovingdon Washington University (tentative) |
5:10-5:20 Break
5:20-6:50 Panel V: Cinematic and Theatrical Imagination of the Global City
| "Looking at the (W)Hole Picture: Imagining Taipei as a Global City" | Kevin Lawrence University of Chicago |
| "Dual Cityzens: Imaging and Imagining Hong Kong and Taipei in Stanley Kwan’s Hold You Tight" | Song Hwee Lim University of Leeds, UK |
| "The Conundrum of Taiwanese Drama at the End of the Century: On Stan Lai’s Recent Works" | Yomi Braester University of Washington, Seattle |
| Chair & Discussant | Pin-chia Feng National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan |
7:00-10:00 Banquet Women’s Building Formal Lounge
May 4, Saturday
7:45 Meeting in Hotel Lobby for Shuttle Bus to Washington University
8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:30 Panel VI: Excavating the Global City
| "Hong Kong by Night: Structure of Light and Urban Dichotomy" | Aida-Yuen Wong Brandeis University |
| "LILONG: Transformed Living Sediment in the Social and Urban Evolution of Shanghai" | Chunlan Zhao Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium |
| "A ‘VCD Generation’ or a Lost Generation? The Ambivalence of the Hong Kong VCD Phenomenon" | Hsinng-chi Hu Chang Jung University, Taiwan |
| Chair & Discussant | John Carroll St. Louis University |
10:30-10:40 Break
10:40-12:10 Panel VII: City Planning and the Logic of Globalization
| "Parting from Leviathan: The Emergence of Participatory Planning in Taipei in the 1990s" | Li-ling Huang National Taiwan University |
| "Taiwan, Located on the Map of Wine Empire" | Patience Chuang Fu-Jan Catholic University, Taiwan |
| "The Remaking of ‘Old Shanghai’ in Taipei" | Chin-chen Hsu National Central University, Taiwan |
| Chair & Discussant | Carlos Rojas University of Florida |
12:10-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Panel VIII: Gendering and Sexing the Global City
| "Sex and the City: Cinematic Reflections on Desire and Anonymity" | Carlos Rojas University of Florida |
| "Gender Identity and National Imagination in Li Ang’s Miyuan" | Pei-yin Lin University of London |
| "Sexing the City: Urban Nostalgia and the New (Woman) in Modern Shanghai" | Megan Ferry Union College |
| Chair & Discussant | Sara Friedman Washington University |
3:30-3:40 Break
3:40-5:10 Panel IX: Constructions of the Chinese Urban
| "Shanghai Cabarets and Chinese Modernity, 1928-1937" | Andrew Field University of Puget Sound |
| "Language Contact and Urban Cultural Geography: Comparative Studies on Loanwords in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taipei" | Jane Si University of Pennsylvania |
| "Vernacular Old and New: Shanghai’s Literary Scene in the 1920" | Gang Zhou University of California, Davis |
| Chair & Discussant | Robert Hegel Washington University |
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