Events

Event Organization

2022 “The Existence of Malaysian Chinese Literature as a Form of Local Literature,” talk by Chinese Malaysian writer Li Zishu; roundtable discussion on Southeast Asian Sinophone Literature, with Li Zishu, Professor E. K. Tan, and Professor Darwin Han-Lin Tsen, moderated by Professor Carlos Rojas. Co-organizer and panelist, Duke, Sept 22.
2022 “Imaging History, Historicizing Images: Transnational Visualities in Cold War Taiwan with Prof. Joseph W. Ho.” Organizer and moderator, UCSB, online, Apr 21.
2021 “Taiwan Queer Literature in the Martial Law Period with Prof. Chi Ta-wei.” Organizer and moderator, UCSB, online, Nov 3.
2021 “Discussion on Queer Sinophone Cultures with A/Prof. Fran Martin.” Organizer and moderator, UCSB, online, May 3.
2021 “The Birth of Modern Chinese Nationalism and Its Relations with Meiji Japan with Prof. Ke Wang.” Organizer and moderator, UCSB, online, Apr 28.
2020 “Memory and Mobility: Taiwanese Literature, Film, Music, and Photography.” Organizer and presenter, UCSB, Feb 2.

Conference Activities

2022 “Nieh Hualing’s Re-membering Refugee Students during the Second Sino-Japanese War.” Panel, presenter, annual conference of American Comparative Literature Association. Hosted by National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, online, Jun 15-18.
2022 “Imagining Alternative Narratives and Transmitting Cultural Memory through Computer Role-Playing Games: Chinese Paladin and Swords of Legends.” Presenter, annual conference of Popular Culture Association, online, Apr 13-16.
2022 “Theorizing War through History, Literature, Visual and Popular Culture.” Panel, organizer and presenter, annual conference of Association of Asian Studies. Honolulu, HI, US, Mar 24-27.
2021 “Nieh Hualing’s Displacements: Representing Refugee Students during the Second Sino-Japanese War.” Presenter, Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, online, Oct 22-23.
2021 “Queering the Intergenerational Remembrance of the Martial Law Period.” Presenter, Remembering Taiwan’s Martial Law Conference. Hosted by Australian National University, Australia, online, Jul 27-30.
2021 “Rewriting War Memory and Negotiating Chineseness in Nieh Hualing’s Three Lives.” Presenter, annual conference of Memory Studies Association. Hosted by University of Warsaw, Poland, online, Jul 5-9.
2021 “‘Infrastructures’ of Memory in Literature, Performance & Museums: Narrating Violence in Modern Japan & Taiwan.” Panel, organizer and presenter, annual conference of Association of Asian Studies, online, Mar 21-26.
2020 “Hayashi Fumiko’s In-betweens: Gendering Sites of War Memory.” Presenter, Contesting Memorial Spaces in the Asia-Pacific. Hosted by Kyushu University Border Studies. Fukuoka, Japan, online, Nov 6-7.
2020 “Wanderers’ Past and Future Nostalgia: Nieh Hualing’s First and Last Novels.” Presenter, SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School. Hosted by SOAS University of London. London, UK, online, Jul 6-10.
2020 “Wandering and Turning: Hayashi Fumiko and Her Reflection on War Responsibility.” Presenter, Memory and Political Responsibility: A Conference by UCLA Working Group in Memory Studies. Hosted by UCLA. Los Angeles, CA, US, Feb 28-29.
2019 “Individual Trauma and National Trauma: Women Dealing with Rape in Hayashi Fumiko’s Floating Clouds and Zhang Ling’s A Single Swallow.” Presenter, 73rd Rocky Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, El Paso, TX, US, Oct 10-12.
2019 “Women Writing War Memories.” Presenter, XXII International Comparative Literature Association Congress. Hosted by Macau University. Macau SAR, China, Jul 29-Aug 2.
2019 “(S)he Remembers War and Life Goes On: Zhang Ling’s A Single Swallow, Nieh Hualing’s Mulberry and Peach and Hayashi Fumiko’s Floating Clouds.” Presenter, World Literatures in Chinese: Transnational Perspectives of East Asian Cultures International Conference. Hosted by UCSB. Santa Barbara, CA, US, Jan 24-26.
2018 “Memory and Translation: Zhang Ling’s A Single Swallow.” Presenter, East and West: The 3rd International Summit Forum of Writers, Translators and Critics/Editors. Hosted by Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. Guangzhou, China, Dec 6-9.
2018 “Aporia in Translating Hiroshima through Three Movies: Hiroshima mon amour, H Story, and A Letter from Hiroshima.” Presenter, 72nd Annual Convention of the 2018 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference. Cheyenne, WY, US, Oct 4-6.
2017 “Translation and Canon Formation of ‘World’ Literature.” Presenter, Annual Conference of American Comparative Literature Association. Hosted by Utrecht University, the Netherlands, Jul 6-9.
2015 “Intratextuality and Intertextuality: Anthroponomastic Allusion in Taipei People and Its Translation.” Presenter, 2015 Durham-Tsinghua Asia-Pacific Forum on Translation and Inter-cultural Studies. Hosted byDurham University, UK, Oct 23-25.
2014 “Cultural Memory and Cultural Communication with Translation as Medium.” Presenter and conference organizer, 11th National Conference of China Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese and the 2014 International Symposium on Comparative and Translation Studies between English and Chinese. Hosted by Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Aug 25-28.

Invited Talks and Guest Lectures

2021 How to Talk about China in the Classroom? A Conversation with Critical China Scholars. Hosted by Chinese Students and Activists (CSA) Network. Online, Nov 14.
2020 Trauma, War and Memory: In Conversation with Award-winning Author Zhang Lin Roundtable. Hosted by University of Houston. Houston, TX, US, online, Nov 21.
2020 Serious Literature? Popular Literature?: Japanese Female Writers from Hayashi Fumiko to Kirino Natsuo. Guest lecture, “Popular Culture in Japan,” Carl Gabrielson, UCSB, Jul 6.
2020 Gender and War Memory in Japan: Anime Film In This Corner of the World. Guest lecture, “Media and Japanese Society,” Dr. Silke Werth, UCSB, Apr 22.
2019 The Film Mulan and Gender Performativity. Guest lecture, “Masterpieces of Chinese Literature,” Prof. Thomas J. Mazanec, UCSB, Dec 5.
2019 Guest lecture, “The Art of Translation,” Katie Jan, UCSB, Nov 25.
2019 From Sites of Memory to Travelling Memory: Facing (in) Hiroshima mon amour, Level Five, H Story and A Letter from Hiroshima. Hosted by Guangxi University. Nanning, China, Sept 2.
2019 “Who Is Afraid of the Chinese Modern Girl?”: Modern Girl in 1930s Chinese Literature and Film. Guest lecture, “The Modern Girl around the World,” Prof. Sabine Frühstück, UCSB, Feb 14.
2017 Translation and Canon Formation of “World” Literature. Hosted by Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. Guangzhou, China, Dec 21.