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In re-centring emotion in Taiwan Studies, a field long dominated by rationalist approaches, this interdisciplinary volume highlights how feelings—of belonging, grief, intimacy, distrust, and ambivalence—shape political life, social formations, and scholarly practice.
Its chapters range across colonial legacies, transitional justice, queer kinship, migrant representation, public health, disability, and more-than-human ethics, showing how emotions illuminate everyday experiences and reframe academic inquiry. By foregrounding feeling as both method and object, Feeling Taiwan benefits readers by offering new ways to interpret Taiwan's histories and futures, while also modelling how to integrate reflexivity, positionality, and affect into research practice. It demonstrates that studying Taiwan is never only an intellectual endeavour, but also an affective one—an engagement that invites readers to reimagine scholarship, community, and otherwise.
The book will appeal to scholars and students in Taiwan Studies, Asian Studies, sociology, anthropology, political science, cultural studies, and gender/sexuality studies, as well as to researchers interested in the "affective turn".
Contents
1. Introduction Part 1 Affective Geopolitics and Incomplete Transitional Justice 2. 'I've Never Been to Me'?Apathy, Military Songs, and Transitional Justice in Taiwan 3. Arts and Transitional Justice in Taiwan: An Affective Approach 4. Embracing Emotions as a Method in the Research Process: Reflections on Imagining and 'Feeling' Fieldwork in Taiwan 5. Memes and Milk Tea Alliances: Reframing Geopolitical Discourses of Taiwan and its Neighbors through Ludic Activism Part 2 Emotional Colonisation and Coloniality in Multiple Forms 6. Expressing Emotions in a Colonial Text:Huang Fengzi's Taiwan no shōjo (A Young Girl of Taiwan) 7. From Hong Kong to Taiwan: A Reflexive Journey Through Emotion, Identity, and Community 8. Destroyed Houses, Incomplete Lives: Suffering, Madness, and the Unfinished Project of Transitional Justice for the Tao of Lanyu 9. Affective Dimensions of Han Settler Colonialism: Autoethnographic Reflections from a Transnational Taiwan Studies Scholar Part 3 Intimacies, Sexualities, and Feeling Attached/Unattached 10. Making Multifaceted 'Affective Relatedness': Emotions in Gay Men's Reproductive Orientations and the Researcher's Navigations of Insider-Outsider Positionality 11. From Swipe to Follow: Algorithmic Romance Work in Taiwan's Digital Dating Culture 12. Attached: The Refashioning of Affective Marginal Citizens in a Biomedical Era 13. Visible Yet Absent: The Emotional Politics of Migrant Representation in Taiwanese Media Part 4 Everyday Politics of Morality, Mundaneness, and Feelings 14. Emotions at Stake in the Lying Flat Phenomenon: Looking at Alternative Life Choices Among Taiwanese Youth 15. Am I a Qualified Researcher? Discomfort and Reflexive Practice in Feminist Disability Studies from a Non-disabled Male Perspective 16. Emotion as Important Public Health Data: COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Low Socioeconomic Status Communities in Taiwan 17. Trans-Species Affect and Ecological Emotion: Reconfiguring the Taiwan Island with Shan-jiao-yu
