Cultural History Group Lecture

Topic:
Contesting Empire: Discourse on Colonialism and Culture in Interwar East Asia

Speakers and Lecture Titles:
1. Soonyi Lee (Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, Mercy University)
“From Civilization to Cultures: The Liang Qichao Group’s Cultural Conservatism after the Great War”

2. Wei-Chi Chen (Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica)
“‘As Japan is the England of the Far East, so is Formosa the Ireland of the Far East.’: Discourses concerning Taiwan’s Place in the World in the 1920s Japanese Colonial Taiwan”

Host:
Wei-Chi Chen (Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica)

Date and Time:
Wednesday, November 5, 2025. 2-4 p.m.

Place:
Room 823 at ITH

Language:
The lectures will be given in English, with Q&A session in English and Mandarin.

Registration:
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