Abstract: This paper examines the reciprocity of identity and spatial politics in Seattle's C... more Abstract: This paper examines the reciprocity of identity and spatial politics in Seattle's Chinatown-International District. The paper argues that the issue of cultural identity is critical to the continued social, cultural and political construction of this multiethnic neighborhood. ...
high-lech (Silicon Valley) landscapes in the Pacific Rim and the transfor-mations of immigrant ho... more high-lech (Silicon Valley) landscapes in the Pacific Rim and the transfor-mations of immigrant home identi-ties in the DC-Maryland region. Her
Daxi is a famous historical town of north Taiwan, because of the preservation of the historic bui... more Daxi is a famous historical town of north Taiwan, because of the preservation of the historic buildings of streets. It began to build the home identity of the locals from the 1990s. By the community participation shown the ancient culture of the town successfully, it became an attractive place for the tourism in Taiwan during the recent ten years. While the industry and lifestyle in the town are changing, it has a bearing on the power of the community groups. The life in the town is not convenient and low quality. Young people were left to work outside the community, and the social relation is to harden into stone. By the time goes on, the sense of place is changing to reconstruct the “Local.” While the industry changed, the culture is much different from the traditional, and the young people have a different dream of their home community. We found some alienated feeling in young people of the town from the workshop discussion of the “Dasi-field school”.However, in recent three year...
Abstract Food is the foundation for the quality of life. The recent decline of healthy agro-lands... more Abstract Food is the foundation for the quality of life. The recent decline of healthy agro-landscapes and vital rural economies have profoundly damaged both urban and rural lives. Based on two case studies in Taiwan, this paper concerns how rural villages develop viable local agro-food sectors. We investigate the liquor industry in Sinyi, Nantou, and eco-friendly tea industry in Pinglin, New Taipei, as the examples. Specifically, we examine the processes through which rural villages managed to build new or transform old agricultural activities under different sectoral and local contexts.
IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, 2004. Conference Record. 2004
The high technology emergence in the 1980s coupled with the economic boom of the 1990s, have led ... more The high technology emergence in the 1980s coupled with the economic boom of the 1990s, have led to the rapid rise of IT industries located on both sides of the Pacific Rim. In Taiwan, Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park (HSIP, the so-called "eastern silicon valley") provided entrepreneurs with the low cost physical infrastructure, equally low cost labor and poor environmental regulatory
Within the last two decades the issue of 'home identity' (how a home reflects a person... more Within the last two decades the issue of 'home identity' (how a home reflects a person's identity) has been an emerging topic within contemporary intellectual discourse in fields as diverse as Asian-American studies, anthropology, cultural geography, cultural studies, literary criticism and landscape architecture. In this article, I focus on the transnational experiences of members of a newly emerging trans-Pacific commuter culture, and give special attention to describing how individual members of this group construct the relationship between self and landscape. This article reveals the complex process in which members of a newly emerging trans-Pacific commuter culture have developed new non-traditional ways of constructing the landscape/home relationship - ways that call for challenging essentialist versions of home within a rapidly changing information age. I examine how Taiwanese-born, high-tech computer engineers who relocated to Silicon Valley engage in a struggle between their old identities and their newly forming American identities. These engineers and their families - members of the 'trans-Pacific home phenomenon' that emerged in the late 1990s - have a lifestyle in which they regularly commute between their American and Taiwanese homes. The ease of global travel and instant worldwide communication that became available in the 1990s afforded the trans-Pacific commuter group ease of travel, simultaneous ownership of two homes, and led to the reinvention of the relationship between global and local within the construction of self and home. This article explores how members of the trans-Pacific commuter culture struggle to make sense between the here-and-there homes across the Pacific Rim. With evidence from 80 interviews conducted in Silicon Valley (USA), Hsinchu (Taiwan), and Shanghai and Beijing (China), I focus on the ways in which members of the global-commuter group invented new, non-essentialist ways of constructing their home-identity relationship. This article addresses how Taiwanese commuters within this trans-Pacific home phenomenon differ in comparison with previous immigrant groups who have either relinquished or replicated their home culture's landscape within a traditional one-way migration pattern. The article shows how trans-Pacific commuters have created a two-way system of migration - a "bi-gration", and how their bi-gration patterns engender a sense of "continuous staying" as they commute back and forth between their old and new homes. The sense of "continuous staying" is shown as the basis for rejecting a traditional, singular, static self in favour of a multiple, shifting sense of self, and of how this new construction of identity integrates with landscape and place across Taiwanese and American cultures.
This study focuses on the loss of youth and talent as one of the most pressing social justice iss... more This study focuses on the loss of youth and talent as one of the most pressing social justice issues leading to unsustainable and inequitable development in rural communities. With the backdrop of the rapid decline in the young rural population and loss of local tacit knowledge, we question how to balance rural sustainability through place-based critical pedagogy by integrating rural societies, agri-economics, and cultural landscapes. To confront the crisis of a loss of young rural talent and local wisdom, interdisciplinary professors from the National Taiwan University initiated place-based pedagogical action research from winter 2011 to winter 2019. This interdisciplinary place-based pedagogy approach supported hundreds of students and educators by nurturing socio-cultural and economic networks that benefit both urban universities and rural communities. Using the curriculum outcomes of this study, we propose the concept of “Knowledge-Ties Youth Rural Sustainability” (KYRS). The KY...
Abstract: This paper examines the reciprocity of identity and spatial politics in Seattle's C... more Abstract: This paper examines the reciprocity of identity and spatial politics in Seattle's Chinatown-International District. The paper argues that the issue of cultural identity is critical to the continued social, cultural and political construction of this multiethnic neighborhood. ...
high-lech (Silicon Valley) landscapes in the Pacific Rim and the transfor-mations of immigrant ho... more high-lech (Silicon Valley) landscapes in the Pacific Rim and the transfor-mations of immigrant home identi-ties in the DC-Maryland region. Her
Daxi is a famous historical town of north Taiwan, because of the preservation of the historic bui... more Daxi is a famous historical town of north Taiwan, because of the preservation of the historic buildings of streets. It began to build the home identity of the locals from the 1990s. By the community participation shown the ancient culture of the town successfully, it became an attractive place for the tourism in Taiwan during the recent ten years. While the industry and lifestyle in the town are changing, it has a bearing on the power of the community groups. The life in the town is not convenient and low quality. Young people were left to work outside the community, and the social relation is to harden into stone. By the time goes on, the sense of place is changing to reconstruct the “Local.” While the industry changed, the culture is much different from the traditional, and the young people have a different dream of their home community. We found some alienated feeling in young people of the town from the workshop discussion of the “Dasi-field school”.However, in recent three year...
Abstract Food is the foundation for the quality of life. The recent decline of healthy agro-lands... more Abstract Food is the foundation for the quality of life. The recent decline of healthy agro-landscapes and vital rural economies have profoundly damaged both urban and rural lives. Based on two case studies in Taiwan, this paper concerns how rural villages develop viable local agro-food sectors. We investigate the liquor industry in Sinyi, Nantou, and eco-friendly tea industry in Pinglin, New Taipei, as the examples. Specifically, we examine the processes through which rural villages managed to build new or transform old agricultural activities under different sectoral and local contexts.
IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, 2004. Conference Record. 2004
The high technology emergence in the 1980s coupled with the economic boom of the 1990s, have led ... more The high technology emergence in the 1980s coupled with the economic boom of the 1990s, have led to the rapid rise of IT industries located on both sides of the Pacific Rim. In Taiwan, Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park (HSIP, the so-called "eastern silicon valley") provided entrepreneurs with the low cost physical infrastructure, equally low cost labor and poor environmental regulatory
Within the last two decades the issue of 'home identity' (how a home reflects a person... more Within the last two decades the issue of 'home identity' (how a home reflects a person's identity) has been an emerging topic within contemporary intellectual discourse in fields as diverse as Asian-American studies, anthropology, cultural geography, cultural studies, literary criticism and landscape architecture. In this article, I focus on the transnational experiences of members of a newly emerging trans-Pacific commuter culture, and give special attention to describing how individual members of this group construct the relationship between self and landscape. This article reveals the complex process in which members of a newly emerging trans-Pacific commuter culture have developed new non-traditional ways of constructing the landscape/home relationship - ways that call for challenging essentialist versions of home within a rapidly changing information age. I examine how Taiwanese-born, high-tech computer engineers who relocated to Silicon Valley engage in a struggle between their old identities and their newly forming American identities. These engineers and their families - members of the 'trans-Pacific home phenomenon' that emerged in the late 1990s - have a lifestyle in which they regularly commute between their American and Taiwanese homes. The ease of global travel and instant worldwide communication that became available in the 1990s afforded the trans-Pacific commuter group ease of travel, simultaneous ownership of two homes, and led to the reinvention of the relationship between global and local within the construction of self and home. This article explores how members of the trans-Pacific commuter culture struggle to make sense between the here-and-there homes across the Pacific Rim. With evidence from 80 interviews conducted in Silicon Valley (USA), Hsinchu (Taiwan), and Shanghai and Beijing (China), I focus on the ways in which members of the global-commuter group invented new, non-essentialist ways of constructing their home-identity relationship. This article addresses how Taiwanese commuters within this trans-Pacific home phenomenon differ in comparison with previous immigrant groups who have either relinquished or replicated their home culture's landscape within a traditional one-way migration pattern. The article shows how trans-Pacific commuters have created a two-way system of migration - a "bi-gration", and how their bi-gration patterns engender a sense of "continuous staying" as they commute back and forth between their old and new homes. The sense of "continuous staying" is shown as the basis for rejecting a traditional, singular, static self in favour of a multiple, shifting sense of self, and of how this new construction of identity integrates with landscape and place across Taiwanese and American cultures.
This study focuses on the loss of youth and talent as one of the most pressing social justice iss... more This study focuses on the loss of youth and talent as one of the most pressing social justice issues leading to unsustainable and inequitable development in rural communities. With the backdrop of the rapid decline in the young rural population and loss of local tacit knowledge, we question how to balance rural sustainability through place-based critical pedagogy by integrating rural societies, agri-economics, and cultural landscapes. To confront the crisis of a loss of young rural talent and local wisdom, interdisciplinary professors from the National Taiwan University initiated place-based pedagogical action research from winter 2011 to winter 2019. This interdisciplinary place-based pedagogy approach supported hundreds of students and educators by nurturing socio-cultural and economic networks that benefit both urban universities and rural communities. Using the curriculum outcomes of this study, we propose the concept of “Knowledge-Ties Youth Rural Sustainability” (KYRS). The KY...
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