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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/imperialization-anti-communism
 -romance-colonial-and-early-postwar-taiwan/
SUMMARY:From Imperialization to Anti-Communism: Romance in Colonial and Ear
 ly Postwar Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:\n	Lin Pei-yin (Assistant Professor\, School of Chinese\, Unive
 rsity of Hong Kong\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n\n	Chair/Discussant: David Wan
 g (Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature\, Department of Eas
 t Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University)\n	\n	Co-sponsore
 d by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\n\n	This talk will examine 
 the development of Chinese-language romance writing in Taiwan under Japan
 ’s imperialization movement and the KMT’s anti-communist measures. It 
 will analyze the gendered modernity in the works of Xu Kunquan and Wu Mans
 ha\, exploring how those authors’ construction of ideal women within the
  domestic sphere is transformed into their promotion of patriotic women un
 der Japan’s wartime mobilization. It will then trace how the romance gen
 re was continued by émigré writers such as Wang Lan and Guo Lianghui in 
 the 1950s and 1960s through their epic romances and (banned) modernist att
 empts. Through contextual and textual analysis\, this talk will posit that
  women functioned as a common encapsulation of writers’ visions of moder
 nity and ethics. It will also argue that governmentality\, be it Japan’s
  colonial enterprise or the KMT’s authoritarian rule\, was a discursive 
 practice to which authors responded with not only agency but also abundant
  creativity.
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