Empires of the Sinophone

Описание: Join us for the NTU Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities Series, where we bring together some of the most eminent thinkers, writers, and intellectuals from around the world to share their insights and perspectives on a wide range of topics.
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Empires of the Sinophone
Professor Shih Shu-mei, 7 September 2023
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Shu-mei Shih is the Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair of Humanities, with a joint appointment in the
departments of Comparative Literature, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies at the
University of California, Los Angeles. She was the past president of the American Comparative Literature
Association (2021-2022) and holds an honorary chair professorship at National Taiwan Normal University. She
is also currently a Yushan Fellow, awarded by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan.
Among other works, her 2007 book, Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific has
been attributed as having inaugurated a new field of study called Sinophone Studies. The book has been
translated into Mandarin Chinese and Korean. She works at the intersection of area studies, ethnic studies,
and comparative literature, and has published a total of 3 monographs and 7 edited books, on topics ranging
from transnationalism, critical theory, comparative racialization, indigenous knowledge, Taiwan studies, and
Sinophone studies. Her forthcoming titles include two volumes in Taiwan: Theorizing across Borders (跨界理
論 monograph), Theory Taiwan (理論台灣 edited volume), and two volumes in the U.S: Sinophone Divergences
(monograph) and Sinophone Studies across Disciplines (edited volume).