講者：林于翔 James Lin assistant professor
主持人：楊子樵Lawrence Zi-Qiao Yang（國立陽明交通大學社文所助理教授）
時間：2024/11/27（三）13：00-15：00
地點：線上會議 webex：https://nycu.webex.com/nycu/j.php?MTID=m526c4e7a86f152980f8228cd408b6907
主辦單位： 國立陽明交通大學社會與文化研究所
▍演講摘要
The Cold War has been a powerful framework to understand and explain changes to society and culture across the world in the 20th century. Taiwan, situated at the front lines of a communist conflict from 1949 to the 1980s, was transformed under a Cold War mentality of anticommunism and state-led terror. Yet, scholars of Taiwan have predominantly adopted Cold War theories derived from non-Taiwan contexts to explain Taiwan’s history, exaggerating the communist threat from the PRC or the effect of US empire on Taiwan. Inspired by recent research by Cold War scholars who have sought to localize global Cold War histories, this talk suggests a new Cold War narrative for Taiwan that centers Taiwan subjectivity and lived experience. It draws primarily upon recent social and cultural histories of Cold War-era Taiwan to present a historiographical argument that the Cold War should be understood through its effect on Taiwanese people and memory.
▍ 講者簡介：
James Lin is a historian of modern Taiwan and assistant professor at University of Washington, Seattle. His book, In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan, is forthcoming with University of California Press (2025).
