The 14th Annual Conference of European Association of Taiwan Studies at the Department of Asian and North African Studies of Ca' Foscari University of Venice 2-4 March 2017 Conference Organising Committee (EATS Board, 2016–2018) Niki Alsford, Isabelle Cheng, Simona Grano, Ann Heylen, Astrid Lipinsky, Lara Momesso, Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley, Adina Zemanek Local Organiser: Federica Passi Important Notice: (1) No discussants are allocated in order to maximise floor discussion. Hence we would like to remind speakers that: 45-50 min speech + 10-15 min discussion for the keynote session 15 min for each paper presentation + 30 min for panel Q&A MA panels have 10 min for each presenter + 30 min for panel Q&A (2) All the ​A​ panels will take place in ​Aula Baratto, Ca’ Foscari (3) All the ​B​ panels will take place in ​Sala Berengo, Ca’ Foscari ● ● ● Thursday (March 2, 2017) Location: Ca’ Dolfin and Ca’ Foscari 9:00 Registration (Ca’ Dolfin) 10:00 Welcome Remarks ​(Ca’ Dolfin) ● Paolo Calvetti, Head of the Department of Asian and North African Studies, Universita Ca’Foscari Venezia ● Szu-chien Hsu, President of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy ● Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley, Secretary-General of the European Association of Taiwan Studies Keynote speech​ (Ca’ Dolfin), introduced by the local organiser, Federica Passi David Wang, ​Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University Topic: “​Worlding Taiwan: Translation and Transculturation” 10:30 11:30 12:00 Walking to Ca’ Foscari for lunch Lunch 13:15 Panel 1a: Politics and Governance Chair: Szu-chien Hsu, Taiwan Foundation for Democracy Simone Dossi, University of Milan 13:15 Shu-yuan Yang, Academia Sinica From Party Leadership to Democratic Control. Translating Foreign Models of Civil-Military Relations in the Republic of China Intercultural Translation: State Policy Shift and the Revival of Tradition among the Bunun of Taiwan Heidi Ning Kang Wang Kaeding, Trinity College Dublin Wei-ya Lin, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna & Cheng-hsien Yang, National Dong Hwa University Lost in Translation: Political Humour in Cross-Strait Relations Maataw – the Floating Island: Performing Eco-Criticism and Social Changes based on Research Findings for the Tao People Malte​ Philipp Kaeding, University of Surrey 14:45 15:15 Panel 1b: Indigenous People Chair: Chien-huei Wu, Academia Sinica Daniel Chun-wei Lin, National Dong Hwa University Translating The Taiwan Experience: Localism and Independence in Hong Kong Retranslating the Voiceless: Radio and Indigenous Voices in Taiwan Dafydd Fell, SOAS Takako Sasaki, Kyoto University Alternative Politics in Taiwan: Who supports Taiwan’s Green Party and Why? Influences of a Conflict between Christianity and Indigenous Religion on Participation in Community Development Activities, a Case Study of CD in an Indigenous Community in Tai-Tung County Coffee Break Panel 2a: Economics and Workforce Chair: Ketty Chen, Taiwan Foundation for Democracy Ling-fang Cheng, Kaohsiung Medical University The changing relations of class, ethnicity, gender and sexuality in Taiwan 1947-2017: The case of the medical 15:15 Panel 2b: Art and Popular Culture Chair: Shelley Rigger, Davidson College Teri Silvio, Academia Sinica Thunderbolt Fantasy: Cross-translating the Aesthetics of Taiwanese profession Puppetry and Japanese Anime Zong-rong Lee, Academia Sinica Kai Sheng, National United University The Rise and Consolidation of Family Capitalism in Taiwan Dialogue and Art: Hou Chunming’s The Asian Fathers Interview Project Chun-yi Lee, University of Nottingham Naomi Kojen, National Chiao Tung University Has three decades’ cross-Strait economic interaction translated to closer cross-Strait relationship? Translating Collective Memory: Perspectives on Taiwanese identity in the art of Chen Chieh-jen and Wu Tien-chang Chen-yu Lin, University of Liverpool After Governmental Advisory: Music Censorship in Post-Martial Law Taiwan 14:45 Short Break 17:00 Panel 3a: Law Chair: Fu-te Liao, Academia Sinica Ching-fang Hsu, University of Toronto & Kevin Luo, University of Toronto Empirical Studies on Public Attitudes toward Judicial System in Taiwan: the More You Experience, the Less You Think of the Court Ernest Caldwell, SOAS Translating Constitutionalism into Authoritarian Contexts: Activism, Representation and the Control Yuan under Martial Law M. Bob Kao, Queen Mary University of London Dinosaur Judges in Taiwan: The Judiciary’s Failure to Communicate and the Erosion of the Rule of Law 17:00 Panel 3b: Linguistics Chair: Ann Heylen, National Taiwan Normal University Wei-lun Lu, Masaryk University Cultural Elements in the Texts and Their Translatability: The Parallel-Text-Based Approach as a New Method for Taiwan Studies Tohru Sakai, Kanazawa Gakuin University & Nobuyuki Nakazawa, Japan National Yamagata University Database of Holo-Taiwanese Language in the Process of Making Multi-Linguistic Policies Le-kun Tan, National Cheng Kung University (​co-author: Guan-hin Khou) Effects and Correlation of Taiwanese Romanization Training in Taiwanese and English’s Phonological Awareness—Tainan City’s Taiwanese Alphabet Program on grades 1 Elizabeth Zeitoun, Academia Sinica (co-authors: Tai-hwa Chu & Lalo Kaybaybaw) Astrid Lipinsky, Vienna University & Fu-te Liao, Academia Sinica Translating Taiwan into Global Law: The International A Study on the Creation of “New Words” in Saisiyat Potential of CEDAW in Taiwan Panels are over at 18:30. We can then slowly move towards the restaurant, in order to eat dinner at 7:30 19:30 Conference Dinner Friday (March 3, 2017) Location: Ca’ Foscari 9:00 Panel 4a: Civic Movements Chair: Isabelle Cheng, University of Portsmouth Jieh-min Wu, Academia Sinica 9:00 Panel 4b: Discourse and Semiotic Analysis Chair: Lara Momesso, University of Portsmouth Elisa Tamburo, SOAS Comparing the Paths of Civic Movements in Taiwan and Hong Kong: Revisiting the “Linz-Stepan Conjecture” Material histories: an architectural semiotic analysis of Taiwan’s military villages Francis Yin, Shenzhen University Tana Dluhosova, Czech Academy of Sciences S​ocial Media as A New Channel of Cross-Strait Communication Trajectories of Ideas: Mainland Chinese and ‘Half Mountain People’s Discourses Before and After the WWII Klavier Wong, Education University of Hong Kong Wen-chuan Huang, National Dong Hwa University Legacy, Habitus, and Repertoires: A comparative study of anti-eviction movements in Hong Kong and Taiwan The Alteration of Commemorative street-naming in the cities of Taiwan Ming-lun Chung, University of Sheffield & Adrian Chiu, Education University of Hong Kong/SOAS Adina Zemanek, Jagiellonian University Net Citizenship and Youth Political Participation in the Context of Chinese Civil Society: A Case Study in Taiwan Taiwan as a “Subject in History”: Translation and Retranslation in Contemporary Postcards 10:30 11:00 Coffee Break Panel 5a: International Relations Chair: Gary Rawnsley, University of Aberystwyth Jens Damm, ​Graduate Institute of Taiwan Studies at Chang Jung Christian University 11:00 Taiwan’s Cultural Diplomacy: A Case Study of Berlin "Trans-editing" Taiwanese History and the February 28th Incident in "A City of Sadness" Jonathan Sullivan, University of Nottingham Federica Passi, Ca' Foscari University of Venice Renegade Province, Island Democracy: How Western Media Frames Taiwan Translating Modernism: Wild Appropriation of Western Techniques or Successful Example of Cultural Adaptation? Lutgard Lams, KU Leuven Campus Brussels Darryl Sterk, National Taiwan University Bringing Seediq Bale Home: Dakis Pawan’s Domesticating Translation of Seediq Bale Ambiguous or Not? Discursive Analysis of the 2016 ROC Presidential Election Campaign Guido Samarani, Ca' Foscari University of Venice Coraline Jortay, Université Libre de Bruxelles Italy’s Policy Towards the R.O.C During the Cold War ears (1950s-60s). A Preliminary Assessment 12:30 14:00 Panel 5b: Literature Chair: Carsten Storm, University Erlangen-Nürnberg Vivian Szu-chin Chih, Cambridge University Lunch + Book Launch Panel 6a: Migration, Mobility and Government Policies Chair: Bi-yu Chang, SOAS Yoshihisa Amae, Chang Jung Christian University Memory, Temporality and Voice in Translations of Li Ang’s “ The Lost Garden” Miyuan 14:00 Panel 6b: History Chair: Sasa Istenic, University of Ljubljana Yu-shan Chang, Heidelberg University Post-imperial Liminalities of Retained Japanese liuyong riqiao in Postwar Taiwan, 1945-1947 Transitional Justice and History Education in Taiwanese High Schools: Taking the 228 Incident as a Case Study Rangga Aditya Elias, National Chengchi University/Binus University Ek-hong Sia, ERCCT Colonial or not Colonial? Missionary Modes as Unholy Trinity 15:30 16:00 Nothing New for Indonesia in the New Go-South Policy and Discordant Troika in 17th and 19th Century Taiwan Isabelle Cheng, University of Portsmouth Denisa Hilbertova, Masaryk University Transforming Restrictive Border Control Regime to Selective Citizenship Legislation: Household Registration and Civic Nationalism in Citizenship Legislation of Taiwan Translating Taiwan behind the Iron Curtain Chia-yuan Huang, University College London Niki Alsford, University of Central Lancashire Tracing the 'Global Talent': Seven Decades of Mobilities of Taiwanese Highly Skilled Migrants, 1947-2017 "Now is the Winter of our Discontent”: Translating Nation as Patient in Transnational Perspectives: Chiang Wei-shui (1921), Lu Xun (1918), Franz Kafka (1917), and Abdullah Cevdet (1922) Coffee Break Annual General Meeting (Aula Baratto) Saturday (March 4, 2017) Location: Ca’ Foscari 9:00 Panel 7a: Institute of Taiwan History and Lim Pen-yuan Foundation Panel on the Development of Dietary Life in Postwar Taiwan Chair: Fu-san Huang, Academia Sinica Lin-yi Tseng, Academia Sinica 9:00 Panel 7b: Multiculturalism and Identity Chair: Stéphane Corcuff, University of Lyon and CECF Taipei Ta-wei Chi, National Chengchi University An Accidental Journey: Sha-cha Sauce and Beef Consumption in Tainan, from the 1950s to the Present Translating Helen Keller in Taiwan Li-yung Lee, National Central University Mihaela Cristina Ionescu, National Taiwan Normal University 10:30 11:00 From Grain to Yummy: the Rice Production and the Society of East Taiwan After World War II Translating Lung Yingtai 1983-2016: A Journey through the Complexities of the Social, Political and Cultural Developments in the Modern History of Taiwan Ping-tsang Tseng, Academia Sinica Huey-li Li, The University of Akron Wartime Living Regime and the Development of Public Food in Taiwan (1947-1960s) Rethinking Alterity in the Formation of Taiwanese Identities Chang-hui Chi, National Quemoy University Claire Yu-min Chen, St Mary's College Learning to Drink Sorghum Liquor: Taste and Consumption in Militarized Jinmen, 1949–1992 Reclaiming Legacy: History, Family and Identity The Lost Garden by Li Ang Coffee Break Panel 8a: Institute of Taiwan History and Lim Pen-yuan Foundation Panel on Taiwan’s Economic Policies and Financial Transformation during the Japanese Colonial Period Chair: Kuo-hsing Hsieh, Academia Sinica Yu-ju Lin, Academia Sinica 11:00 Panel 8b: MA Panel Chair: Simona Grano, Institute for Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich Jiamin Lee, SOAS The Customs of Taiwan during the Japanese Occupation: Window of Control Ruminating Harmony in Hybridity: The Case of Wei Te-sheng and Umin Boya’s KANO Teruhiro Minato, Osaka Sangyo University Elisa Sordo, Ca' Foscari University of Venice The Dilemma of the National Policy Company: Wartime Financial Statements of the Taiwan Development Corporation Metamorphosing Characters, Unconventional Sexual Desires: Ku’er Discourse in Ji Dawei’s Short Story “Shi” (The Eclipse) Wen-kai Lin, Academia Sinica Chung-yin Kwan, SOAS The Transformation of a Financial Regime: The Meaning of Taiwan’s Financial Reform in the Early Japanese Colonial Period, 1895-1905 To Join or Not To Join? Comparing the Pattern of Hong Kong and Taiwan’s New Generation Student Activists Participations in the Post-Movement Elections Tsong-min Wu, National Taiwan University Maja Korbecka, Jagiellonian University in Kraków Japanese Industry Policies in Colonial Taiwan: Tea and Sugar Overseas Chinese filmmakers in the contemporary Taiwanese cinema Ko-Hang Liao, London School of Economics The 90th Anniversary of the Formation of Taiwanese People’s Party/Split of the Taiwanese Cultural Association and Its Implications for National Solidarity Adam Lifshey, SOAS Translating Taiwan Southward. A Potential Remapping of Wu Zhouliu’s Orphan of Asia 12:30 13:30 Lunch Panel 9a: Taiwan Foundation for Democracy Panel on Interpreting East Asian Democratization: Taiwan in Historical and Comparative Perspectives Chair: Tun-jen Cheng, College of William and Mary Da-chi Liao, National Sun Yat-Sen University The impact of social movements on Taiwan's democratization: A comparison between Red Shirts' and Sunflowers' effects upon the operation of Legislative Yuan Shelly Rigger, Davidson College Comparing democratisation of Taiwan and South Korea: retrospect and prospect Erik Kuhonta, McGill University Three decades of re-democratization in the Philippines 13:30 Panel 9b: Literary Representation Chair: Adina Zemanek, Jagiellonian University Shu-hui Lin, National Taiwan Normal University Cultural Translation: Representations of Taiwan’s Travel Writings during Martial Law and Post-Martial Law Period Yu-wen Chih, University of Auckland The Cultural Signification of Headhunting in Li Qiao’s Wintry Night Trilogy Pei-yin Lin, University of Hong Kong Eco-ethnography, Acculturation, and Marginality: Strategies of Translating Taiwan’s Dutch Past in Wang Jiaxiang’s Daofeng neihai, Chen Yaochang’s Fu’ermosha sanzu ji, and Ping Lu’s Posuo zhi dao Ian Chong, National University of Singapore A Matter of Trust: Understanding Limited Support for Taiwan’s Defense Reform 15:00 15:30 Huei-chu Chu, National Chung Hsing University Translating the Cold War: Sinophone/Japophone Literatures from Kinmen and Okinawa Concluding Remarks, 2017 EATS YSA Presentation and Closing Ceremony (Aula Baratto)