Dr Bi-Yu Chang

Overview

Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia

Research Associate

Centre of Taiwan Studies

Research Associate

Name:: Dr Bi-Yu Chang
Email address:: bc18@soas.ac.uk
Telephone:: 020 7898 4206
Address:: SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Building:: Russell Square: College Buildings
Office No:: 204
Office Hours:: Mon 2-3 (or by appointment)

Biography

Cultural politics: politics of culture, the state’s involvement in identity formation; identity politics; nation building and nationalism; education and ideology
Arts: Traditional and contemporary theatre in China and Taiwan; Chinese-speaking films.
Cultural geography: the spatialisation of identity; cartographic representation; geography education.

Teaching

Research

Research Interests

The politics of culture, the state’s involvement in identity formation; identity politics; nation building and nationalism; education and ideology; traditional opera, and contemporary theatre; Taiwanese films; the spatialisation of identity; maps; geography education.

Current research and external grants awarded:

Bi-Yu is convenor and a member of three joint research projects funded by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan, including: Politics, Aesthetics, and Homeland Construction: A Re-examination of Taiwanese History of the Early Post-war Period (政治,美學,家/國建構:重探戰後初期台灣史) in 2010; Exploring the Cultural Faces of Taiwan in the 1950s (尋找台灣五O年代文化形貌) in 2009; Mapping Taiwan: Forgotten History and Selected Memories in Post-war Taiwan (擘畫台灣: 戰後台灣的遺忘與記憶) in 2008.

She is currently working on two books – “Imaging Taiwan”(edited volume)(summer 2010), and a research monograph, entitled Treasure Island: Space, Nation, and Identity in Post-war Taiwan.

Publications

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Authored Books

Chang, Bi-Yu (1996) Sleeves and Rouge: Performance and Life of Wei Hai-ming in Beijing Opera [Shuixiu yu yanzhi Wei Haimin de wutai shengya= 水袖與胭脂:魏海敏的舞臺生涯]. Taipei: Shang-chou Culture (商周文化) Publisher.

Edited Books

Fell, Dafydd and Henning, Klöter and Chang, Bi-Yu, eds. (2006) What has Changed? Taiwan Before and After the Change in Ruling Parties. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (Studia formosiana, vol. 4)

Book Chapters

Chang, Bi-Yu (2011) 'Imaging National Landscape: Yushan, Modern Myth and Identity.' In: Chang, Bi-Yu and Klöter, Henning, (eds.), Imagining Taiwan. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (Forthcoming)

Chang, Bi-Yu (2009) 'Taiwanese Identity Shift and the Struggle for Cultural Hegemony in the 1990s.' In: Cheng, Chin-Chuan and Wang, I-chun and Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven, (eds.), Cultural Discourse in Taiwan. Kaohsiung: National Sun Yat-sen University Press, pp. 30-51.

Chang, Bi-Yu (2009) 'Film Industry, Taiwan.' In: Pong, David, (ed.), Encyclopedia of Modern China. Vol.2. Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 49-52.

Chang, Bi-Yu (2007) 'Disclaiming and Renegotiating National Memory: Taiwanese Xiqu and Identity.' In: Storm, Carsten and Harrison, Mark, (eds.), The Margins of Becoming: Identity and Culture in Taiwan. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 51-67.

Chang, Bi-Yu (2006) 'Constructing the Motherland: Culture and the State in Taiwan.' In: Fell, Dafydd and Klöter, Henning and Chang, Bi-Yu, (eds.), What has Changed? Taiwan Before and After the Change in Ruling Parties. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 187-206.