NCKU professor to talk about East Asian love dramas in America’s university
Tainan, Taiwan, October 15, 2013
Dr. Fang-chih Irene Yang, a professor at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, and currently a visitor scholar at the Institute of East Asian Studies in the University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, USA, will give a talk on East Asia’s pop culture in the University of Wyoming, USA, October 17.
As a feminist cultural critic based in Taiwan, Dr. Yang responds to the modern political issues through popular cultural phenomena, while giving them a historical dimension.
Her research interests are East Asia’s pop culture including music, TV dramas and women’s magazines.
She uses gender, class and ethnicity to make sense of the tensions and contradictions that exist in East Asia’s pop culture.
In the talk hosted by the University of Wyoming, Dr. Yang will use Inter-Asian love dramas to explain East Asian pop culture.
The love dramas “illustrate East Asian pop culture as a sphere of production, circulation and consumption,” Dr. Yang says.
“They unpack the tensions between the local and the regional, with women caught in this process as consumers, workers and citizens.”
Dr. Yang will apply inter-Asian television love dramas to illustrate "East Asian pop culture" as a sphere of production, circulation, and consumption.
The talk titled “Popular Culture in East Asia – The Production and Consumption of Inter-Asian Love Dramas” will be held on Thursday, October 17, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 310 of the University of Wyoming Classroom Building.
During the talk, several issues will be discussed - If production for regional audiences aims to transcend the local, what are the strategies the TV industries use to reach regional audiences? What are the textual politics that are negotiated in order to reach regional female audiences? What are the tensions between the regional and the local? Practices of consumption are always embedded in local dynamics, what are the local politics that enable women to interpret these inter-Asian TV love dramas? What functions do these interpretations perform in the larger social and political domains?
This talk is sponsored by the Global & Area Studies Program, the Ruth P. Ellbogen Foundation and the International Studies Student Club. For more information about this talk please contact the Global & Area Studies program at (307) 766-3423 or intstudy.uw@uwyo.edu.
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Dr. Fang-chih Irene Yang, a professor at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, and currently a visitor scholar at the Institute of East Asian Studies in the University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, USA, will give a talk on East Asia’s pop culture in the University of Wyoming, USA, October 17.
As a feminist cultural critic based in Taiwan, Dr. Yang responds to the modern political issues through popular cultural phenomena, while giving them a historical dimension.
Her research interests are East Asia’s pop culture including music, TV dramas and women’s magazines.
She uses gender, class and ethnicity to make sense of the tensions and contradictions that exist in East Asia’s pop culture.
In the talk hosted by the University of Wyoming, Dr. Yang will use Inter-Asian love dramas to explain East Asian pop culture.
The love dramas “illustrate East Asian pop culture as a sphere of production, circulation and consumption,” Dr. Yang says.
“They unpack the tensions between the local and the regional, with women caught in this process as consumers, workers and citizens.”
Dr. Yang will apply inter-Asian television love dramas to illustrate "East Asian pop culture" as a sphere of production, circulation, and consumption.
The talk titled “Popular Culture in East Asia – The Production and Consumption of Inter-Asian Love Dramas” will be held on Thursday, October 17, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 310 of the University of Wyoming Classroom Building.
During the talk, several issues will be discussed - If production for regional audiences aims to transcend the local, what are the strategies the TV industries use to reach regional audiences? What are the textual politics that are negotiated in order to reach regional female audiences? What are the tensions between the regional and the local? Practices of consumption are always embedded in local dynamics, what are the local politics that enable women to interpret these inter-Asian TV love dramas? What functions do these interpretations perform in the larger social and political domains?
This talk is sponsored by the Global & Area Studies Program, the Ruth P. Ellbogen Foundation and the International Studies Student Club. For more information about this talk please contact the Global & Area Studies program at (307) 766-3423 or intstudy.uw@uwyo.edu.
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