A Conversation with Andy Chih-ming Wang


DATE
Wednesday February 12, 2025
TIME
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

The Empires in Asia cluster is delighted to welcome interested graduate students and faculty to this informal lunchtime conversation with Andy Chih-Ming Wang (Academia Sinica; Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society).

Andy Chih-ming Wang is a Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, working in the intersected fields of transpacific American literature and inter-Asia cultural studies, especially on the questions of intellectual production and diasporic connections. He has served on the board of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society since 2012 and currently serves as the Chair of the Society. He is the author of Transpacific Articulations: Student Migration and the Remaking of Asian America (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013) and editor-in-chief of Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies. He has also coedited a number of projects, including (with Daniel Goh) Precarious Belongings: Affect and Nationalism in Asia (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2017) and (with Yu-Fang Cho) “The Chinese Factor: Reorienting Global Imaginaries in American Studies,” American Quarterly 69.3 (2007). His book (in Chinese) Re-Articulations: Hundred Years of Foreign Literature Studies in Taiwan was published by Linking Press in Taiwan in 2021 and received the Academia Sinica Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2022.

Participants are asked to read at least one of the following two readings (accessible via UBC Library):

Chih-Ming Wang. “Post/Colonial Geography, Post/Cold War Complication: Okinawa, Taiwan, and Hong Kong as a Liminal Island Chain.” Geopolitics, 2021: https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2021.1884547.

Chih-Ming Wang. “Toward Asian Independence: The Transpacific and Inter-Asian Trajectories of Taraknath Das.” In Trans-Asia As Method: Theory and Practices. de Kloet, Jeroen, Fai Chow, Yiu, and Pak Lei Chong, Gladys, eds. London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019, 79-98. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ubc/reader.action?docID=5968422&ppg=96

If you encounter trouble accessing the readings, please email qhuang98@mail.ubc.ca to enquire about PDF files.

After a round of self-introductions, participants will be invited to share their own reflections, thoughts, and connections made with the assigned readings and the overall theme of ‘inter-Asia connections’. Light lunch will be provided. All are welcome; no RSVP required.