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VIENNA CENTER FOR TAIWAN STUDIES

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Contents1. Founding of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies ..................................... 32. Taiwan Studies curriculum at the University of Vienna ............................... 33. Taiwan-related Expertise ........................................................................................ 54. Taiwan Teaching ........................................................................................................ 85. Taiwan Film Screenings .......................................................................................... 96. Vienna Taiwan Lectures ........................................................................................107. Workshops .................................................................................................................198. Bi-Lateral Austrian-Taiwanese Conferences ..................................................199. Vienna Taiwan Studies Series ..............................................................................2110. Funding ......................................................................................................................23

Title photo: Workshop with Grace Liao, Shih-Jung Hsu and students, p.19

Founding ceremony of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studiesparticipants (right to left):Prof. Trappl (Director of Confucius Institute University of Vienna)Robin Lu (Taipei Economic and Cultural Office Vienna)Prof. Linhart (Head of Department of East Asian Studies)Prof. Peng (National Chengchi University)Prof. Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (Department of East Asian Studies / Sinology)Dr. Lipinsky (Department of East Asian Studies / Sinology)

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1. Founding of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies The Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies was established with a ceremonial celebration at the Department of East Asian Studies/ Sinology in January 2009 on the invita-tion of Prof. Dr. Susanne Schwiedrzik. The ceremonial address was given by Professor Li-Chung Peng from National Chengchi University in Taiwan. Dr. Peng also repre-sented the Taiwan Studies Center at NCCU, a partner institution of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies, in congratulating its founding by donating a nameplate with the Center’s name and logo. The talk by Professor Peng, given in Chinese, dealt with the meaning and importance of Taiwan in current East Asian studies. It was translated into German by Dr. Astrid Lipinsky, and a revised German version was published in the journal of Leipzig students of Chinese Studies, Dianmo.

The ceremony and following dinner were attended by Dr. Christoph Baerenreuter, who is responsible for the Taiwan cooperation projects sponsored by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, and by Eva-Gabriela Toifl, who was in charge of cooperation with Asia at the University of Vienna in 2009. Their participation underlined the impor-tance that both the University of Vienna and FWF have accorded to this program.

The goal of the cooperation is to establish the on-going presence of Taiwan studies and research at the Department of East Asian Studies. The founding of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies was accompanied by the signing of a first, department level, contract of cooperation with National Chengchi University.

2. Taiwan Studies curriculum at the University of ViennaSinology at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna, defines its contemporary Chinese studies from a Greater China perspective that includes courses on Hong Kong, Taiwan and the overseas Chinese diaspora. Previously, instruction concerning Taiwan relied on visiting scholars (Dr. Michael Rudolph, University of Southern Denmark) and was therefore offered in the concentrated format of weekend seminars.

From 2008 on, the Sinology curriculum has included a focus on Taiwan in its regular curriculum. From 2013, classes have been offered in English. Participants therefore include English-only participants of the Vienna University Erasmus program, and students of the English language master programs offered by the University of Vienna, for example the „Global History“ program.

From 2013, the Vienna University’s regular courses on Taiwan have been included in the East Asian Economy and Society Master Program: The two-year master’s program East Asian Economy and Society (EcoS) is multidisciplinary, dealing with contempo-rary social, political and economic aspects of the East Asian region as a whole. It is offered at the Department of East Asian Studies of the University of Vienna, in English.

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Courses on Taiwan are especially welcome to EcoS students because with their focus on society and on social issues, they can research Taiwan as an example within the Asian region. In Sinology, the Taiwanese courses cover all three mandatory parts of the curriculum, namely „Politics and Law“, „History and Society“ and „Literature and Culture“. The Vienna Taiwan Lectures are part of the instruction on Taiwan.

Year Theme of Course

2008 Japanese Colonial Rule in Taiwan as an example of Colonial Regimes (in German)

2009 Taiwan 1895. Geschichtsschreibung im Film

2010 Geschichte und Gesellschaft Taiwans

2012 Taiwans gesellschaftliche Entwicklung im Film

2013 Taiwan in den 1960ern: Bildung und Industrialisierung

2013 Taiwan in den 1960ern: Verlust des internationalen Status und die Folgen

2013 Transforming Taiwan: Social, political and cultural aspects

2014 Internationale Konventionen in der Volksrepublik China und in Taiwan

2015 Taiwan’s Civil Movement(s) Reflected in Documentaries - Rice, Gender and Science Cultures

2015/16 Japanese Rule, colonial and post-colonial developments in Asia

2015/16 Intersectionality Research in Taiwan. A Comparison with the West

Taiwan Studies Events at the University of Vienna

Date Event responsible

19.-20.04.2008

Blockseminar: Taiwans Ureinwohner im Spannungsfeld von Nativismus, Christianisierung und Elitenwettbewerb

Dr. Michael Rudolph, University of Southern Denmark

17.05.2008

Workshop: Post-Porno und Gender im taiwanesischen Kino

Barbara Eder; Felix Wemheuer

28.09.2009

Bi-Lateral Austrian-Taiwanese Joint Seminar, presentation: What’s legal culture got to do with it – from “pingfan” to “transitional justice“ in Taiwan?

Agnes Schick-Chen

28.-30.05.2010

Workshop „Geschichte und Gesellschaft Taiwans unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Ureinwohner“ (Ostasienwissenschaften / Sinologie und Museum für Völkerkunde).

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik und MMag. Sonja Peschek

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3. Outreach: Taiwan-related Expertise and Conference Contributions

As its managing director, Dr. Lipinsky endeavors to promote the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies and the Taiwan research at the University of Vienna through her contributions to Taiwan-related conferences internationally. She has given regular presentations at annual meetings of the European Association of Taiwan Studies since 2008, highlighting the research work of the Vienna Center.

Dr. Lipinsky also regularly lectures at various universities in Taiwan. While the Vienna cooperation concentrated first mainly with National Chengchi University (NCCU) and its Taiwan Studies Center, the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies has established contacts with Chang Jung Christian University (CJCU), Kaohsiung Medical University and National Kaohsiung University in Southern and from 2013 with National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) in Northern Taiwan.

Dr. Lipinsky was elected to the Board of the European Association of Taiwan Studies in 2015, and often participates in Taiwan-related teaching at other European univer-sities, especially in Eastern Europe (Prague, Brno, Krakow and Ljubljana).

Date Topic Event / Conference Location

18.-20.04.2008

Taiwan Democratization and the Disappearance of Women

5th Conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS)

Prague, Czech Republic

16.-17.07.2008

Post-colonial Legal Education: A non-Asian Foreigner’s Perspective

Symposium on Post-colonial Legal Studies and Legal Education

NCCU, Taipei

03.-08.12.2008

Modernizing the Chinese Family and Gendering Society. The Gender Equality Education Act and its Impact on Women’s Status in Taiwan

10th Annual Conference of the Hong Kong Sociological Association

Hong Kong

15.-18.04.2009

Designing an all-inclusive legal system. The Gender Equity Education Act and its impact on women’s democratic participation in Taiwan

6th Conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies

Madrid

28.-30.09.2009

The Taiwanese women’s movement and democratization: Gendering Taiwan by law

Bi-Lateral Austrian-Taiwanese Joint Seminar Vienna

10.–13.11.2009

The Taiwanese women’s movement and the transformation of civil society

Conference Innovation and Transformation in Taiwan

Lund University

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08.–10.04.2010

The women’s movement and indigenous self-identity in Taiwan: Can global feminism localize?

7th Annual Conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies

ERCCT, Tübingen, Germany

24.–26.06.2010

Bunt sein, laut sein, viele sein: Taiwans Frauenbewegung und die Aneignung des öffentlichen Raumes

Interdisziplinäres Symposium „Frauenbilder – Frauenkörper. Inszenierungen des Weiblichen in den Gesellschaften Süd- und Ostasiens“

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany

06.–11.09.2010

„Women and women’s organisations in Taiwan“ „Taiwanese law in the East-Asian context“

European Graduate Summer School on Taiwan studies

Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic

27.–28.09.2010

Gender justice by inclusion. How the women’s movement can provide redress

Bi-Lateral Conference „Justice and Injustice Problems in Transitional Societies: Taiwan and China“

NCCU, Taipei

01.10.2010

Gender justice and the role of the women’s movement. How to inclulde the victims

Lecture, Graduate Institute of Taiwan Studies CJCU, Tainan

12.–14.05.2011

Localizing gender equality policies in Taiwan: The Taiwan Gender Equality Education Association and the gendering of schools


University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

28.–30.06.2011

A target group for feminist empowerment?

Conference on Migration to and from Taiwan

SOAS, University of London

01.–03.09.2011

Transnational Brides or Victims of International Trafficking?

The 2011 Kinmen Conference on “Constructing, Governing and Engaging Civil Society in Kinmen”

Kinmen, Taiwan

05.-07.09.2011

Cultural diversity and the Taiwanese women’s movement

7th Taiwanese pop culture conference NTNU, Taipei

06.09.2011

The multiple faces of diversity. Insights from three months research on immigration in Taiwan

Luncheon Talk NCCU, Taipei

16.09.2011

Multiculturalism in children’s books: Taiwanese authors on migrant brides and their families

Graduate Institute of Taiwan Studies CJCU, Tainan

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30.09–01.10.2011

Creating a diverse society. Taiwanese government immigration policies

Bi-National Conference „Immigration Societies. A comparative perspectiveon Austria and on Taiwan“

Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna

25.-27.11.2011

Die Kulturelle Renaissance Bewegung in Taiwan. Die Bedeutung von Kultur und Revolution in der Republik China

XXII. Jahrestagung der DVCS, Kontinuität und Umbruch in Chinas Geschichte und Gegenwart

Technical University, Berlin

09.-13.01.2012

The Xinhai Revolution in Taiwan: On the Sustainability of Artificially Institutionalized History

Conference “Reform and Revolution. In Commemoration of the Xinhai Revolution and 100 Years of State Building“

Wien, University of Vienna

16.-18.03.2012

The concept of an East-Asian Rechtskreis: its origin and its future

8th East Asian Conference on Philosophy of Law, East Asian Legal Cultures in the Era of Post-Reception

NCCU, Taipei

09.05.2012

Musterknabe? Taiwan, die UN- Menschenrechtspakte und die Todesstrafe

Ostasienforum, Department of East Asian Studies

University of Vienna

18-21.06.2012

United Nations Conventions in Taiwan: On a Commitment without UN Membership


University of Southern Denmark, Sonderborg

06-07.11.2012

UN conventions and the internationalization of the feminist movement in Taiwan

International Conference “Social movements, rights discourses and citizenship: Social and political developments in Taiwan in a regional perspective”

NCCU, Taipei

02-04.05.2013

Taiwan at the UN Commission on the Status of Women and the Women’s movement

10th EATS annual conference Lyon

30.09.2013

Localizing gender equality policies in Taiwan

Workshop: Ethnicity and Gender in Taiwan CJCU, Tainan

05.02.2015

Taiwans Frauenbewegung in China: Die Rolle der Kontakte über die Taiwanstraße

Public Lecture, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Germany

09.02.2015

Unmarried Women, Marriage and Law in China, Taiwan and Asia

ERCCT European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan

Tübingen

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04.05.2015

Changes of Families in East Asia: Why Women do not Marry Palacký University

Olomouc, Czech Republic

14.09.2015

Taiwan Studies and Research in Vienna

Lecture, National Kaohsiung University

Kaohsiung, Taiwan

16-20.11.2015

Confucianism in the Asian Family Today TV-series on non-married women: Taiwan

Student Workshop Krakow: Taiwan Popular Culture in a Regional Context

Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland

20.04.2016

Japanese-Taiwanese love stories in Taiwanese Film Lecture, Ljubljana University Ljubljana,

Slovenia

26.04.2016

Japanese-Taiwanese Relations in Taiwanese Cinema: Dreams of a non-Chinese Homeland

Lecture, Palacký UniversityOlomouc, Czech Republic

4. Taiwan Teaching Taiwan guest teachers’ intensive Chinese language seminars

In early 2009, the Taiwanese Ministry of Education began to sponsor professors from partner universities of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies to offer intensive seminars (16 hrs) in the Chinese language to master students of Sinology at the University of Vienna. Thus far, all guest professors have come from different depart-ments of National Chengchi University. The project is hopefully going to continue in the future.

Date Guest professor Course title

2009 Li-Chung Peng Taiwan’s Transformation and Development: A Historical Perspective

2011 Chia-Ning Chu Language and Dialects in Taiwan

2011 Yuang-Kuang Kao Taiwan’s Democratization and Democratic Politics

2012 Carol Yeh-Yun Lin Small and Medium Sized Enterprises andEconomic Development in Taiwan

2013 Liang-Kung Yen Taiwanese Government and Public Policyin a Global Context

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5. Taiwan Film Screenings at the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies

Films are of increasing importance in introducing Taiwan, as well as a significant part of Taiwan research. From its beginnings, the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies has collected Taiwanese films and documentaries, and film screenings are a regular part of courses in Taiwan studies. Student papers have analysed films in discussions of social movements, environmental activism and identity issues, as well as the history of Taiwan. Films are also shown during extra-curricular „Taiwan Nights“.

Year Topic Films shown

2008 Famous Taiwan Film directors Hou Hsiao-Hsien, City of SadnessTsai Ming-Liang, The Wayward Cloud

2009 Meilidao. The Beautiful Island

March of Happiness , 1999The Dull-ice Flower, 1989Hill of No Return, 1992Cape No. 7, 2008Island Etude, 2006

2010 Taiwanese History and Histories

In the Name of History – „1895“, 2008Prince of Tears, 2009Voices of Orchid Island, 1993Amis Hip Hop, 1995

2011 Taiwan Film Nights

Three Times, 2005Kung Fu Dunk / Shaolin Basketball Hero, 2008Zoom Hunting, 2010Cannot Live without You, 2009The Shoe Fairy, 2006Chocolate Rap, 2006

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Taiwan’s Filmsof the 1960s and 1980s

Recent Taiwanese Films

Oyster Girl, 1964Beautiful Duckling, 1965Dust in the Wind, 1987Night Market Hero, 2011

2014 TaiwanDocumentaries

Food from the Heavens, 2009Let It Be – The Last Rice Growers, 2005The Rice Bomber, 2014

Bird without Borders, 2009Tomb Raptor, 2009

2015 The Japanese in Taiwanese Film

Formosa Betrayed, 2009Kano, 2014Sayon’s Bell, 1943Duosang – A Borrowed Life, 1994

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The Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies cooperates with the theatre and film studies departments at the University of Vienna, reflecting the growing importance of media, film and TV analysis in the Department of East Asian Studies as a whole. Furthermore, film is now a means of introducing intra-East Asian comparisons, through coopera-tion among colleagues in Japanese and Taiwanese studies.

6. Vienna Taiwan LecturesThrough our experiences over the past four years, we have found that the easiest and most economical way to achieve excellence in teaching, research and international exchange concerning Taiwan is through guest lectures. Such guest lecture programs on Taiwan are featured worldwide, but the lectures are often stand-alone and rarely related to other events around Taiwan. The Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies decided from the start to involve the Vienna Taiwan Lectures into University of Vienna Taiwan teaching as a required part of coursework. As Taiwan teaching is usually master degree level, the evening lectures are well suited to master students who often work at least part time. Several students have in fact reported that they selected the Taiwan course because of its evening and weekend schedule.

The Vienna Taiwan Lectures began in winter 2012. During the first term, lectures were partly in German, but this was soon changed to English only, to attract non-Austrian students and include international scholars’ presentations. Although the lecture topics were mixed, they nevertheless addressed themes that the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies is based on and familiar with, including:

• ethnicity and multi-ethnicities• Taiwan history and economics • politics and the Taiwanese elections• gender, women and social movements

From 2012, the Lectures – usually five per term – were combined into a specific term topic. However, as the single term proved to be too short to cover one topic and include a number of known expert speakers, the term topic was enlarged to an annual one in 2014, covering both winter and summer terms. Each new annual topic starts in the winter term (October) and continues through the end of the summer term (June) the following year.

Currently, the necessary external funding needed to invite and host external expert lecturers has been guaranteed through 2017/18.

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Topics of the Vienna Lecture Series

2013 Transforming Taiwan: Social, Political and Cultural Aspects

2013/14 Teaching Taiwan: Social, Political and Cultural Aspects

2014 Teaching Taiwan: Gender and EthnicityTransforming Taiwan: The Impact of Migration and Globalization

2015 Taiwan’s Civil Movement(s): History, Culture and Legacy

2016 Perceiving Taiwan: Literature, Media and Film

2017 Mainstreaming Gender in Taiwan: Issues, Challenges and Achievements

2018 Documenting Taiwan: Identity Issues in Literature and Film

2019 Taiwan and the United Nations: Historical Experience and Current Situation

Lectures are videotaped. Detailed information can be found on the website of Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies. Homepage: tsc.univie.ac.at

The annual programs of the Vienna Taiwan Lectures, including those planned for summer 2016, are featured in the following series of posters, which have been widely distributed.

Lecture by Liang-Kung Yen

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Winter term 2012

Summer term 2013

Dennis Hickey

Taipei, Beijing and the Path to Peace Across the Taiwan Strait

21st November 2012Jana s. RoškeRMou Zongsan und die moderne konfuzianische Bewegung in Taiwan

12th December 2012sigRiD WinkleRTaiwan in internationalen Organisationen:Zukunftsweg oder Sackgasse?

14th January 2013

Taipei, Beijing and the Path to Peace Taipei, Beijing and the Path to Peace

2121stst November 2012 November 2012

Mou Zongsan und die moderne Mou Zongsan und die moderne konfuzianische Bewegung in Taiwankonfuzianische Bewegung in Taiwan

Vienna Taiwan Lecture Seriese

caRol yeH-yun linNational Intellectual Capital of Austria and Its Re-lationship with the Greater China Economies

30th January 2013

Jens Damm

The Multiculturalization of Taiwan

8th March 2013astRiD lipinskyTaiwan‘s women‘s movement

24th April 2013ann HeylenImagery of 17 th Century Formosain Present Day Taiwan

8th May 2013

liang-kung yenThe Evolution of High-tech Industrial Park in Taiwan

22nd May 2013

micHael RuDolpHEthnical growth and ethnical re-classification

15th May 2013

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Time: Wednesday 18:15

Location: SIN 1, at the Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology, Altes AKH, Campus, Spitalgasse 2, yard 2, entrance 2.3 http://campus.univie.ac.at/plan-universitaere-einrichtungen

Winter termOctober 2013 – January 2014

Sang-Yeon Sung

Helmut opletal

agneS ScHick-cHen

cHriStian göbel

JenS Damm

Taiwan: Center of East Asian Pop Circle

Taiwan’s political developmentsand the status of its indigenous people

Politics of memoryand the question of ethnicity in Taiwan

Local actions, corruptionand anti-corruption in Taiwan

Taiwan’s Ethnicities: The Perspective from Mainland China

9th October 2013

16th October 2013

20th November 2013

15th January 2014

18th December 2013

Winter termWinter termOctober 2013 – January 2014October 2013 – January 2014

The Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology andthe Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies are pleased to announce


Lectures are open to the public without charge or prior registration

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Transforming Taiwan:

Isabelle Cheng

astrId lIpInsky

MarIe seong-hak kIM

Jens daMM

lara MoMesso

Female Migration to Taiwan

“Saigon Kid“ - Youth Books by Taiwanese Authors on New Taiwanese Children

Confucianism that Confounds: ConstitutionalJurisprudence on Filial Piety in Korea

Cross-Strait Social Movements: Impacts andChallenges for Both Sides

A Lesson from Taiwan: Revisiting Migration for Marriage by Looking at the Lived Experiences of Cross-Strait Marriage Migrants

26th March 2014

9th April 2014

7th May 2014

18th June 2014

21st May 2014

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Isabelle Cheng

Rosa enn

shIh-Jung hsu

MIChael Rudolph

Wan-YIng Yang

Common Interests in a Differentiated Environment: Political Socialisation and Participation of Foreign- Born Citizens in Taiwan

Indigenous Movement and theEnvironment – The Case of Taiwan

Taiwan Rural Front and the LandJustice Movement in Taiwan

Women’s Movement and GenderValue Changes in Taiwan

Taiwan’s Aboriginal Movement

12th Nov. 2014

3rd Dec. 2014

10th Dec. 2014

21st Jan. 2014

14th Jan. 2014

Winter term 2014

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Taiwan's Civil Movement(s):

Ming-Yeh RawnsleY

siMona gRano

Julia RitiRc

Jens DaMM

henning KlöteR

Democratisation of the Media in Taiwan:Anti-Media Monopoly Movement and Policies

Taiwan’s post-2008 Environmental Activism: Green Rethoric or True Committment?

Taiwan’s Conservative Movement and its Mobiliza-tion Strategies in the Context of Same-sex Marriage Legislation

Negotiating Language from Below:Huang Shihui and Nativist Literature

The Symbiosis of Homophobia and AIDS-phobia during Taiwan’s Societal Transformation in the Early 1980s

Thursday, 19th March 2015 Room: OAW

22nd April 2015

6th May 2015

17th June 2015

20th May 2015




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Winter term 2015

SebaStian HSien-Hao Liao

SebaStian HSien-Hao Liao

ann HeyLen

ti-Han CHang

CHriS berry

Romance of the Three Kins:Negotiating the Japanese Imaginaryin Taiwan Cinema

Poetics of Geography:The Post-Chinese Visions in Taiwan Film

Taiwanese identityand the film Formosa Betrayed

The Japan Complex in Taiwanese Cinema

Nature, Ecology and Oceanic Imaginationin Relation to Postcolonial Environmentand Taiwanese Literature

14 Oct. 2015

21 Oct. 2015

11 Nov. 2015

13 Jan. 2016

25 Nov. 2015



Perceiving Taiwan:


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Summer term 2016

Perceiving Taiwan:

Bruce JacoBs

carsten storm

Denisa HilBertova

sHu-cHun li

sHu-cHun li

Taiwan is Not China: Aborigines, Colonial Rulers and Democratisationin the History of the Beautiful Island

Mapping Imaginary Spaces in Li Yongping’s 李永平 Jiling Chronicles 吉陵春秋

Taiwan in Czechoslovak CommunistPropaganda Caricatures (1948-1989)

Taiwan Literature and Taiwan New Cinema

Autobiographies by Dang-Wai movement WomenWorkshop

13 April 2016

11 May 2016

8 June 2016

Saturday,18 June 201611:00-16:00

15 June 2016



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7. Workshops organized by the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies with guest speakers

In 2014, discussions with potential Vienna Taiwan Lecture presenters resulted in several of them, especially those coming from a distance, offering to give a Wednesday lecture, provide additional input on Thursday or Friday and stay for a Saturday workshop. Because of the scarcity of classrooms, workshops could only be held during the weekend. Unlike weekday programs, the Saturday workshops attract people from outside the university, and have increased interest in Taiwan and the Center’s offerings as a whole.

25.10.14 Workshop „Taiwanese Popular Music: Negotiating, Constructing and Articulating Taiwanese Identity” with Sang-Yeon Sung and Yi-Hsuan Lai

29.11.14 Workshop „Rethinking the Production and Challenges of International Science documentary” with Ming-Yeh Rawnsley

13.12.14 Workshop „Land Grabbing and Forced Evictions in Taiwan” with Shih-Jung Hsu and Grace Liao

13.–14. 02.15

Workshop „EU Application for Chinese Cultural Diplomacy Project”with Jens Damm (Chang Jung Christian University, Taiwan)

14.11.15 Saturday Workshop „The Japanese in Taiwanese Film: Kano” with Ann Heylen

28.11.15 Taiwan Film Weekend. Workshop with Chris Berry

8. Bi-Lateral Austrian-Taiwanese ConferencesBack in September 2009, the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies organized the first Austrian-Taiwanese conference on the topic of “Democratic Transition, Political Culture and Social Change”. The meeting was part of an Austrian-Taiwanese cooperation that is otherwise available only for Austrian-Japanese bi-lateral events. The conference and others following the same pattern were funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF in cooperation with the Taiwanese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST). The initial conference was part of a project calling for two such meetings, one in each of the countries involved. Thus in September 2010, the Taiwanese counterpart at National Chengchi University hosted “Justice and Injustices in Transitional Societies: Taiwan and China”.

Afterwards, the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies organized bi-lateral conferences on an annual basis, involving different faculties at the University of Vienna (Faculty of History, “Equality” conferences 2016 and 2017), and even Johannes Kepler Univer-sity, Linz, another major Austrian university (“Gender and Intersectionality”, 2015 and 2016). For these events, the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies took on the core

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organizing, initiating academic cooperation beyond the field of Asian studies.

Date Location Conference Title

September2009 Vienna Democratic Transition, Political Culture and Social

Change in Taiwan

September2010 Taipei Justice and Injustices in Transitional Societies:

Taiwan and China

September –October 2011 Vienna Immigration Societies

November2012 Taipei

Social Movements, Rights Discourses and Citizenship: Social and Political Developments in Taiwan in a Regional Perspective

October2015 Vienna Gender & Intersectionality in Taiwan and Austria:

Differences and Similarities

February2016 Taipei Equality: Taiwan in Context

Forthcoming

Late 2016 Tainan Intersectionality in Globalizing Societies and Comparative Aspects

April 2017 Vienna Equality: Austria in Context

Bi-Lateral conference: Gender & Intersectionality in Taiwan and Austria

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9. Vienna Taiwan Studies SeriesThe Vienna Taiwan Studies Series is both an internationally peer-reviewed English language book series and an annual journal. The Series was registered with ISSN and ISBN numbers in 2013. The first volume was published in 2015 and an annual volume is planned for the coming years.

The publications evolved to offer to a wider audience the academic contributions at Austrian-Taiwanese conferences held regularly since 2009. Individual’s publications will also be considered for inclusion in the series.

The field of Taiwan studies has only been established since the 1990s as a distinc-tive academic area of research, and is still being developed and diversified. As the Vienna conference topics document, potential topics of interest are multiplying, and a European-Taiwanese comparative perspective has been newly established in Vienna, offering enough scope for another series.

In addition, the need was felt for a continental European platform for Taiwan studies with a focus on society and popular culture besides the current Routledge Research on Taiwan Series (since 2011) and the Harrassowitz. Studia Formosiana Series (since 2003). Having a local, Vienna-based publisher has proven advantageous – and attractive: the Vienna Taiwan Studies Series offers colorful covers, designed locally, to distinguish itself from Routledge’s standard blue ones.

The Vienna Taiwan Studies Series is also committed to affordable pricing, hoping for distribution beyond libraries and academic institutions.

About the Series Editor

Dr. Astrid Lipinsky, M.A. was a co-founder of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna, in 2009, and has been the Center’s managing director since then. Born in Germany, she has been based at the University of Vienna since 2008.

Dr. Lipinsky studied Chinese at Mandarin Training Center, National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei. She majored in Sinology, Japanology and Comparative Private Law at Bonn University, Germany, and wrote her MA thesis on the Republican Chinese marriage law reforms of the 1990s in Taiwan. Dr. Lipinsky obtained her Dr. phil at Bonn University.

Dr. Lipinsky worked on the national follow-up to the Fourth Women’s World Con- ference in Beijing 1995 with the leading German women’s organization Deutscher Frauenrat. She later led a UNIFEM project to strengthen the leadership capacities of village women in a ‘poverty county’ of Shandong Province, China, where she lived for over a year.

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Dr. Lipinsky participates widely in international human rights and gender networks. She publishes in German, English and Chinese. Her publications are partly available on her homepage at www.sinojus-feminae.eu, established in 2008.

Dr. Lipinsky is the recipient of several DAAD grants; the Taiwan Fellowship; and the Excellence Grant of National Chengchi University, Taiwan. She recently received a short-term research fellowship from the International Taiwan Studies Center (ITSC), Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature at National Taiwan Normal University that is planned to enhance cooperation between the Taiwan Centers and is extending the Vienna Taiwan research network and exchanges with Eastern European universities.

Titles in the Series

1 Immigration Societies. Taiwan and Beyond - with a Foreword by Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik. Editor: Astrid Lipinsky, University of Vienna

2Social Movements in Taiwan: Historical Roots to Recent Developments (forthcoming 2016) - with a Foreword by Michael Hsiao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Editor: Astrid Lipinsky, University of Vienna

3Gender & Intersectionality in Taiwan and Austria (forthcoming 2016/17)Editors: Jens Damm, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, & Astrid Lipinsky, University of Vienna

4The Japanese in Taiwanese and Chinese CinemaEditors: Astrid Lipinsky, University of Vienna & Yu-Wen Fu, National Kaohsiung University

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10. Funding for the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies and supporting institutions

The Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies was established in 2009 as part of the Department of East Asian Studies, specifi cally at Sinology, and has been active since then, although not yet legally institutionalized. Nevertheless, there has been continuous support for the Center for Taiwan Studies from the Department of East Asian Studies and the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna. This has facilitated the Center’s ability to obtain additional funding from outside sources.

Early on, the Education Division of the Vienna Taipei Economic and Cultural Offi ce (TECO) provided small grants to the Department library for books and literature on Taiwan. It also supported Taiwan-related conferences by hosting a dinner bringing together key people and organizations that would be interested in this form of international cooperation. The single-item grants were fi rst combined into a one year funding plan, and most recently into a three year contract. All TECO funding requires matching funds from the University of Vienna. These are covered by offi ce and lecture hall rentals, and the commitment to include regular Taiwan teaching as part of the Sinology curriculum.

In 2014, the Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation gave the Vienna Taiwan Lecture Series a support grant for one year. A new application was submitted in 2015, and approved for another two years. The staff and students involved in the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies are very appreciative of the generous support from all supporting institutions.

As interest in the developing international relationships and academic scholarship around Taiwanese studies grows, the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies and its Lecture Series welcome new partners in their multi-level endeavors. Plans for 2016-2018 include: the publication of annual journals; 2 volumes of papers related to the annual themes of the Lectures; a growing library of video resources from the lectures, as well as many rich and varied connections and relationships that have developed and been enriched by the exchange of guest lecturers.

Organizations or individuals interested in contributing to the continued expansion and success of the program should contact the Center’s managing Director, Dr. Astrid Lipinsky at [email protected].

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