Fang-chih Irene Yang

Fang-chih Irene Yang is a professor at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan and currently a visitor scholar at the Institute of East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. Prof. Yang's publications are situated at the emgerging field of East Asian pop culture, including pop music, TV dramas, and women's magazines. As a feminist cultural critic based in Taiwan, her works respond to the timely political issues through ephemeral popular cultural phenomena while giving them a historical dimension. Prof. Yang approaches all her research topics from the intersecting perspective of gender, class, ethnic, and national(list) politics and tries to make sense of the politics of popular culture within the tensions and contradictions generated through the forces of localization, regionalization, and globalization in contemporary East Asia.

The Production and Consumption of Inter-Asian Love Dramas in Taiwan

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This talk uses inter-Asian television  love dramas to illustrate the issues pertinent to the discussions on the concept of “East Asian pop culture” as a sphere of production, circulation, and consumption. In particular, this talk uses Taiwan as a case study to unpack the tensions between the local and the regional, with women caught in … Read more