Chang Cheng-chieh
張政傑

program

Field of Study

Years of Stay at HYI

Aug 2016 to Dec 2017

University Affiliation (Current)

University Affiliation

Cheng-chieh Perry Chang is an assistant professor at the Department of Japanese Language and Culture, Soochow University (Taiwan). From 2019-20 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institution of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He received his PhD in Modern Japanese Literature from Nagoya University. He obtained his B.A. (double major: Physics and Japanese Language) and M.A. (modern Japanese literature) from Soochow University, Taiwan. His research interests include student movements in Japan and Taiwan, counterculture, modernized perception, consumption of representation in literature and visual arts. His doctoral dissertation examines the representation of the student movement in the late 1960s in literature and visual arts, with a particular focus on media effects and the high‐consumption society of the 1980s. His latest work is “Rethinking the Memories of “1968” in Japan: Struggles between Forgetting and Remembering” (Journal of the Society of Japanese Language and Literature 73, 2016).

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