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Conference Leaflet 2019 Onlinv Taiwan‘s Cultural Diplomacy A Decade of Intercultural Discovery Vienna Center forTaiwan Studies October 25th, 2019 AULA am Campus Program overview Your host for the international conference on Taiwan‘s Organization Committee Cultural Diplomacy is the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies (VCTS) at the University of Vienna, Austria. Managing Director: Astrid Lipinsky 13:00 Registration and coffee To us, the many forms of cultural diplomacy seem a Organization Team: Raphael Zachhuber 《台灣電影的歷史跫音》 Opening: Congratulary remarks & Welcome suitable content to celebrate our first decade since the Kuan-Hsien Liu 14:15 14:00 The Musical Footsteps of Taiwanese Film founding of VCTS in 2009 when we also established our Stefanie Yu History part 1 Head of University Prof Dr. Engl website at http:tsc.univie.ac.at you can find English and Josef Yu Taiwan Delegate to Austria Vanessa Shih Chinese language booklets on our work. 歌手，班多鈕手風琴： 吳睿然 二、高山青/Green Moutain (1947) 《阿里山風雲》電影主題歌/Theme song Head of Department of East Asian Studies Graphic Design: Tu Lan Ta Bandoneón/Vocal: Wu Ruei-Ran 小提琴： 浅山 薫 of the film “Turbulence on the Ali Mountain” Prof. Dr. C. Goebel The cultural diplomacy activities by VCTS include Opening Violin: Asayama Kaoru (1947) Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies Managing Taiwan teaching, Taiwan research (and conference pre- Director Dr. Astrid Lipinsky sentations of results), Taiwan academic conferences, 一、望春風/Longing for the Spring Breeze 詞曲：張徹 Your host Your Vienna Taiwan Lectures (by European and Taiwanese (1933) Lyrics/Music: Zhang Che experts), peer-reviewed publishing and Taiwan film 《望春風》電影主題歌/Theme song 三、燒肉粽/Hot Rice Dumpling (1949) screenings. of the film “Longing for the Spring Breeze” (1938) 《燒肉粽》電影主題歌/Theme song of the film “Hot Rice Dumpling” (1969) 作詞：李臨秋, 作曲：鄧雨賢 詞曲：張邱東松 With the support of: Lyrics: Lee Lin-Chiu Music: Deng Yu-Shien Lyrics/Music: Zhang Chiu Dong-Song Taiwan‘s Cultural Diplomacy A Decade of Intercultural Discovery Exploring the Idea of Contact Zone in the System of International Relations in The Globalized Taiwan Studies and its Relevance to Taiwan’s Cultural Diplomacy East Asia The position of Taiwan in the system of international The presentation will explore how Taiwan has been The rise of institutionalized Taiwan Studies began in development of the new academic field of Taiwan relations in East Asia has always been contested. This coping with this challenging situation ever since, and Taiwan in the 1990s, initiated in Academia Sinica and studies beginning in the 1990s will then be analyzed. presentation looks at this phenomenon and uses the how its way of coping with the situation has profoundly spreading to many other universities. category of contact zone to explain it. shaped its culture. Finally, I will take a further step to argue and advocate Then it witnessed the establishment of three regional that the globalized Taiwan studies can and should be Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik Michael Hsin-Huang Hsiao It argues that the region of East Asia is characterized associations of Taiwan studies in North America, Japan considered as a useful intellectual tool and cultural University of Vienna Academia Sinica by the competition between two potential centers, and Europe. At the same time, quite a few universities product to promote cultural diplomacy for Taiwan China and Japan, which have reached out to contact around the world also set up Taiwan studies-related around the world. zones such as Manchuria, Korea, Taiwan and the Ryukyu centers and programs. 15:30 - 16:15 Opening keynote 2 Opening keynote Islands in order to impose their dominance over the (break) region. Hence, such new intellectual trend can be described as the globalization of Taiwan studies beyond Taiwan. 15:15 Since the second half of the 19th century, China first In this keynote speech, I will first discuss the origins, lost its center position to Japan, after WW II to two development, and institutional characteristics of (break) external powers, the US and the SU. Taiwan studies in both Taiwan and outside Taiwan. Opening keynote 1 Opening keynote 14:30 - Recently, the competition between Japan and China Then I will delineate the paradigm features of Taiwan for the center position has been re-opened. Under studies inside and outside Taiwan. The close connection these conditions, Taiwan has to define and re-define its of the great social, cultural and political transformation position (Lin Man Houng) time and again. of Taiwan since the 1980s and the institutional Taiwan‘s Cultural Diplomacy A Decade of Intercultural Discovery Cultural Diplomacy: What is it? What is it not? And why should Taiwan care? Delimiting ‘Cross-Strait Studies’ (跨岸研究) Cultural diplomacy has long been recognized as a and suggest that governments work best by facilitating The ‘Taiwan Studies’ field has been soundly institutio- However, interaction does also happen in other places means of international engagement, but now it is often cultural relations, nurtured by the cultural industries nalized over the last 15 years. Efforts have been made in China and overseas. Cross-strait studies highlight in- confused with public diplomacy, cultural relations, and themselves with little political involvement. to define its relations to the ‘China Studies’ field in an teraction in social action fields (or contact zones) such so-called „soft power“. effort to delimit the former from the latter – an im- as companies, residential compounds, pilot free trade The paper will use a variety of case-studies to intro- portant move to legitimate faculty positions for Taiwan zones or other settings in which Mainland Chinese and Gary Rawnsley Gunter Schubert Governments around the world, including Taiwan, pri- duce these concepts but will focus specifically on scholars within or without China studies departments. Taiwanese (as residents, employees, businesspeople, Nottingham University Tuebingen University vilege the attraction of cultural programs to generate Taiwan which is only just beginning to appreciate the students of tourists) interact, producing a ‘third space’ and ERCCT familiarity with their countries and elicit support for value of both cultural diplomacy and cultural relations. Meanwhile, the reality of economic and social interac- between China’ and Taiwan’s gaze on the other. their national values, political agendas, and foreign tion between the PRC and Taiwan over the last three 17:25 policy ambitions. decades has arguably produced a new research field: In this space, both Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese Closing keynote (break) ‘Cross-Strait’ studies. Research in this field takes stock ‘perform’ to satisfy the political and ideological requi- - However, it is not clear that governments understand and investigates the manifold dimensions of everyday rements of the official cross-strait relationship but, at 18:10 17:15 adequately how to mobilize the talents of the cultural contact between Main-land Chinese and Taiwanese in the same time, assure their mutual existence as industries to further engage with audiences overseas. both China and Taiwan. human beings. (break) Afternoon keynote 16:30 - In this keynote address I will outline the concept of Geographically spoken, they may foremost focus on concept of cultural diplomacy and differentiate it from cross-strait interaction between Taiwan on the one other types of strategic communications. In particular, hand and China’s southeastern provinces – Guangdong, I will consider the limitations of cultural diplomacy Fujian, Zhejiang – on the other. Taiwan‘s Cultural Diplomacy A Decade of Intercultural Discovery October 25th, 2019 October 26th, 2019 AULA am Campus SIN 1 Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology Program overview Program overview 《台灣電影的歷史跫音》 Panel 1: Taiwan Film as a Cultural Diplomacy Tool Panel 3: Diplomacy in New Forms with other Addressees The Musical Footsteps of Taiwanese Film History part 2 Chair: Lara Momesso Chair: Sascha Klotzbücher 18:15 一、亞細亞的孤兒 /Asian Orphan (1983) Corrado Neri Caroline Zillessen 14:00 – 15:30 《異域》電影主題歌/Theme Song of the film “A Home Too 09:00 – 11:00 Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley Chung Yin Tommy Kwan Far” (1990) Yu-Wen Fu Albert Wei-Min Tang 詞曲：羅大佑 Astrid Lipinsky Lyrics/Music: Luo Da-You 15:30 – 16:15 break 11:00 – 11:10 break 二、野玫瑰 /Heidenroeslein (Little Rose of the Field) Film: The Kaohsiung Incident (1979/12/10) 40 (1771 / 1815) 歌手，班多鈕手風琴： 小提琴：浅山 薫 Panel 2: Taiwan Studies and Taiwan Centers: Years: The Taiwan Research Foundation Panel 1-4 Panel 《海角七號》電影主題歌/Theme song of the film “Cape 吳睿然 Violin: Asayama Kaoru A Global Comparison remembers Huang Hsin-Chieh (1928-1999) No.7” (2008) Bandoneón/Vocal: Chair: Michael Hsin-Huang Hsiao 德文原詩：歌德，作曲：舒伯特 Wu Ruei-Ran 11:10 – 12:40 Panel 4: Government Actions and Cultural Lyrics: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Music: Franz Schubert André Laliberté & Scott Simon Diplomacy Impact(s) 中文譯詞：周學普 作曲：吳睿然 Lara Momesso & Niki Alsford Chair: Helmut Opletal Chinese Lyrics: Chou Shue-Pu Simona Grano Music: Wu Ruei-Ran 16:15 – 18:00 Christian Goebel Ending: Musical Interlude 三、八萬五千六百三十七/ Eighty-five Thousand Six Hundred 18:30 Buffet dinner and informal conclusion with Austrian wine 12:40 – 14:00 lunch break I-Ming Liao and Thirty-seven (2010) Jens Damm 《當愛來的時候》電影配樂 / Original filmscore for the film “When Love Comes” (2010) Dinner for invited guests (conference speakers) Taiwan‘s Cultural Diplomacy A Decade of Intercultural Discovery Cinema as Diplomatic Cultural Tool Screening Taiwan Soft Power: Film Festivals in and about Taiwan I have been working on cinema history and theory content, aimed public) for possible future events that As Dina Iordanova (2010: 18–19) has noted, ‘There is since many years, focusing on Taiwan studies. In 2018 I enhance public and scholars interest s for Taiwan disparity in the behaviour of countries when it comes organised an international workshop Taiwan Lost Com- studies. to festivals organised with the mandate to promote mercial Cinema with the unevaluable help of the Centre national cinemas.
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