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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/indigenous-dna-as-a-metaphor-s
 cientific-debate-on-the-rediscovery-of-taiwanese-ancestry-and-nation-build
 ing/
SUMMARY:Indigenous DNA as A Metaphor: Scientific Debate on the Rediscovery 
 of Taiwanese Ancestry and Nation-Building
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\nSe
 ating is limited. Masks are required for all in-person audience members.\n
 \nThe development of genealogical science in the twenty-first century has 
 important implications for national and racial/ethnic construction. In Tai
 wan\, genetic research on the origins of Taiwanese has involved racial/eth
 nic issues but also the dispute over Taiwan's national identity with the P
 eople's Republic of China\, which claims that "we have the same roots" or 
 "blood is thicker than water." After the end of martial law (1945-1987)\, 
 scientific research on multi-origins and genetic makeup of Taiwanese emerg
 ed. In particular\, Marie Lin\,M.D.\, widely known as "the mother of the r
 esearch on Taiwanese blood\," and her teams have been devoted to revealing
  the origins of the ethnic groups in Taiwan. My research pushes the concep
 t of co-production between science and politics (Jasanoff\, 2004) further 
 by addressing the "nationalization of biomedicine" and the "biomedicalizat
 ion of the nation". I explore how the Taiwan’s changing identity politic
 s\, including the emergence of the new categorization of four great ethnic
  groups\, multiculturalism\, and Taiwanese nationalism\, has profoundly in
 fluenced genetic research on Taiwanese genealogy and how scientific findin
 gs produced in the lab have then spilled out into both Taiwan and the PRC 
 through journals\, media\, history textbooks\, and public disputes since t
 he 1990s. For genealogical science to play a constructive role in identity
 -making\, this research shows that we need to remain vigilant to genetic t
 echnology\, scientific knowledge formation\, and methodology by looking at
  scientists’ works and discourses through an STS perspective to extend t
 he epistemological reflection.\n\nArticles related to this talk by Prof. T
 sai: \n\nWan-Ju Lee &amp\; Yu-Yueh Tsai (2022): Governance through scient
 ism: Taiwan Biobank and public controversy\, New Genetics and Society\n\nY
 u‑Yueh Tsai and Wan‑Ju Lee: An imagined future community: Taiwan Bioba
 nk\, Taiwanese genome\, and nation‑building\, BioSocieties (2021) 16:88
 –115\n\n&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:Visiting Scholar Talks
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