Self-introduction

Po-hsi Chen is currently Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica. Prior to joining the IMH, he was Postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge and at the Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taipei. Po-hsi’s dissertation focuses on the politics of emotions in Cold War Taiwanese literature and its connection to transnational radical movements, specifically exploring how China's socialist experiments were reflected in Taiwanese and Chinese American diasporic communities through the cross-Strait and transpacific circulations of banned books, radio short waves, spoken drama, “red classics” cinema, and propaganda films. He is working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Importing Revolution: Envisioning Socialist China in Cold War Taiwan.
 
At IMH, he is developing his next research project titled “Golden Horse: From Quemoy-Matsu Awards to the Chinese Oscars.” It historicizes how film institutions in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the PRC have competed for representing the legitimate China since the 1960s by including certain ideological positions while excluding other linguistic and ethnic groups. It traces the Cold War origin of this cultural institution that co-opted Hong Kong cinema into its “Free China” discourse. I further discuss how the Golden Horse was constructed as the most inclusive film institution by admitting films produced in the PRC, the Malayan Peninsula, and North America in response to the changing geopolitics after Hong Kong’s handover. 
 
 

Education

• Ph.D, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University
   

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Resumé

• Postdoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, 2021-2023
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taipei, 2021

Academic honors

Research fields

• Cold War culture, global sixties, left-wing intellectual history, Sinophone literature and cinema

Research projects

Publications

Journal articles 陳柏旭，2023，〈「下層階級站到舞臺前」：海外保釣運動中的業餘話劇運動（1971-77）〉，《文化研究》，36, 15-54。(TSSCI, THCI) Po-hsi Chen，2019，〈'Chanting Slogans with Muted Voice': Lan Bozhou's 'Song of the Covered Wagon' and Untimely Leftist Reportage in Taiwan〉，《MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE AND CULTURE》，31(2), 81-128。(A&HCI)

Other writings Po-hsi Chen, 2023, “Golden Horse Awards”, Encyclopedia of Taiwan Studies. 陳柏旭，2023，〈1986年Contemporary Chinese Fiction出版緣起：聶維斌的臺灣文學調查〉，《閱・文學》，79, 74-50。 Ng, Kim Chew. Trans. Po-hsi Chen, 2022, “Why Does a Failed Revolution Also Need Fiction?: On the Mahua Genre of Failed Revolutionary Historical Fiction”, Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, 19(2), 411-427.

Book review Po-hsi Chen, 2024, “Review of: Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness, Lily Wong (2018) New York: Columbia University Press, 248 pp.”, East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 10.1, 144-146. Po-hsi Chen, 2023, “Book review for Ye Shitao, A History of Taiwan Literature (Amherst, NY: Cambria, 2022), translated, edited, and introduced by Christopher Lupke, 404pp.”, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, n/a, 0. 陈柏旭，2019，〈《马克思出文庙：郭沫若研究与日本资本主义论争》〉，《现代中文学刊》，1, 92-95。