Taiwan Cinema, Memory, and Modernity

Ivy I-chu Chang is Professor and the former provost of National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. She was a visiting scholar and Fulbright scholar at New York University in 2006 and 2011-12, a recipient of MOST Grant (1997-2019), Mackay Canadian Studies Award, and Asian Cultural Council Award. She is the co-editor and chapter contributor of a book, Transnational Performance, Identity, and Mobility in Asia (Palgrave, 2018) and is the author of such monographs as Queer Performativity and Performance (2010); and Global Time-Space, Bodies and Memories: Taiwan New Cinema and its Influence (2015).

• Introduction.- The Visible and the Invisible: Edward Yong’s Taipei Trilogy.- The Ruin, Body, and Time-image in Tsai Ming-Liang’s Films: The Wayward Cloud, What Time Is It There, and I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone.- Colonial Reminiscence, Japanophilia Trend, and Taiwanese Grassroots Imagination in Cape No. 7.- Mourning Love: Queer Performativity and Transformation in Zero Chou’s Spider Lilies and Splendid Float.- Aesthetics of Violence and Elegy for the Young: Chang Tsuo-chi’s Gang Trilogy.- Repressed Memories and the Unhomely in Chung Mong-hong's Children Trilogy.

“The book is a crucial and very welcome examination of a film industry … . the main strengths of this book is the author’s ability to amalgamate the complex deconstruction of film style, paying close attention to cinematography, composition, editing, and narrative, with that of the wider geopolitical complexities of Taiwan’s hybrid cultural landscape.” (Mary J. Ainslie, International Journal of Taiwan Studies, Vol. 4 (2), 2021)