EditorialA New PhaseAn era of compromise and cooperation is nascent in the Legislative Yuan. PoliticsRise to LeadershipLai Ching-te and Hsiao Bi-khim take office as president and vice president in May.By […]
Renegade Rhymes: Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan Book Talk with Meredith SchweigIn-person and online *Registration Requested On Thursday May 16 from 3:30 to 5pm in Thompson 317 and online, Professor Meredith Schweig, […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5/9/2024 The Global Taiwan Institute (GTI) is pleased to announce the publication of a new occasional report titled The Chinese Communist Party’s Political Warfare Directed Against Taiwan: Overview […]
Job Announcement: Administrative AssociatePosition Title: Administrative Associate GTI seeks an administrative associate to manage the daily operations of the office. The ideal candidate for this position will be someone with excellent […]
YouTube Channel
Ann Heylen – A 17th Century Depiction of Women in Dutch Formosa Source Materials
This project examines the accessibility of disclosed and undisclosed archival materials related to early modern Taiwan history over the past decades. The integration of digital humanities tools and methods has ...accelerated this accessibility within the academic community. However, it emphasizes the importance of methodological validity, and to formulate solid questions rather than solely relying on data availability. A key concern arises when analyzing historical data from the 17th century. For the historian these materials are part of the legacy of Dutch colonial history, and are revealing a male-centric perspective that shapes the discourse on women. This construction of discourse creates power positions that have come to inhabit different levels of privilege and obscure a more layered and intricate post/colonial historiography. The presentation adopts an intersectional lens to explore colonialism as an epistemological endeavor, highlighting the intertwining of gender and race. Utilizing archival data, the project aims to make visible the women histories that have been marginalized within dominant historical narratives. This will be illustrated with three types of materials: 1) an undisclosed manuscript Kerkboeck (Church Minutes of the Tayouan Consistory 1642-1649); 2) the 1980-2000s Dutch edited and annotated published version of De Dagregisters van het kasteel Zeelandia, Taiwan 1629-1662 (Daily Journals); and 3) the recent (2000-) Taiwan edited version of De missiven van de VOC- gouverneur in Taiwan aan de Gouverneur -Generaal te Batavia (Taiwan Missiven).
Ann Heylen is Professor at the Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature (TCLL) at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) and currently serves as the Director of the International Taiwan Studies Center, College of Liberal Arts at NTNU. She holds a Ph.D. in Chinese Studies (Sinology) from Catholic University Leuven, Belgium. She is editor-in-chief of the East Asian Journal of Popular Culture (EAJPC, Intellect). Her publications cover the history and historiography of Taiwan, with special attention to Dutch Formosa, the Japanese colonial period (1895-1945).[+] Show More
active
Ann Heylen – A 17th Century Depiction of Women in Dutch Formosa Source Materials
This project examines the accessibility of disclosed and undisclosed ...
This project examines the accessibility of disclosed and undisclosed archival materials related to early modern Taiwan history over the past decades. The integration of digital humanities tools and methods has ...accelerated this accessibility within the academic community. However, it emphasizes the importance of methodological validity, and to formulate solid questions rather than solely relying on data availability. A key concern arises when analyzing historical data from the 17th century. For the historian these materials are part of the legacy of Dutch colonial history, and are revealing a male-centric perspective that shapes the discourse on women. This construction of discourse creates power positions that have come to inhabit different levels of privilege and obscure a more layered and intricate post/colonial historiography. The presentation adopts an intersectional lens to explore colonialism as an epistemological endeavor, highlighting the intertwining of gender and race. Utilizing archival data, the project aims to make visible the women histories that have been marginalized within dominant historical narratives. This will be illustrated with three types of materials: 1) an undisclosed manuscript Kerkboeck (Church Minutes of the Tayouan Consistory 1642-1649); 2) the 1980-2000s Dutch edited and annotated published version of De Dagregisters van het kasteel Zeelandia, Taiwan 1629-1662 (Daily Journals); and 3) the recent (2000-) Taiwan edited version of De missiven van de VOC- gouverneur in Taiwan aan de Gouverneur -Generaal te Batavia (Taiwan Missiven).
Ann Heylen is Professor at the Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature (TCLL) at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) and currently serves as the Director of the International Taiwan Studies Center, College of Liberal Arts at NTNU. She holds a Ph.D. in Chinese Studies (Sinology) from Catholic University Leuven, Belgium. She is editor-in-chief of the East Asian Journal of Popular Culture (EAJPC, Intellect). Her publications cover the history and historiography of Taiwan, with special attention to Dutch Formosa, the Japanese colonial period (1895-1945).[+] Show More
active
Ann Heylen – The Representation of Womankind in Dutch Formosa Research 10 April 2024
This presentation underscores the significance of scrutinizing both ...
This presentation underscores the significance of scrutinizing both secondary research data generating historical narratives and the nature of archival sources in making visible marginalized histories within dominant narratives. While both ...objectives are interconnected, the focus here is on the former rather than contextualizing the literary generic of the source material. The exploration of the 17th century Dutch colonial project in early modern Taiwan remains a vibrant area of research and extends beyond the realm of historians. Of interest is to see how the research output shapes the gender and race discourse within colonialism. Specifically, the presentation aims to understand the gendered nature of the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie/ Dutch East India Company) and its impact on postcolonial historiography in Taiwan. It examines the development of this gender narrative against the backdrop of Taiwan’s complex and multilayered colonial past, identifying ethnic components that have been concealed, silenced, biased, or overemphasized in the historically evolved constructions of social and cultural realities. To address these questions, an overview of themes in Dutch Formosa history (in English and Mandarin) relating to gender will be provided, with selected illustrations subjected to in-depth analysis. The concluding remarks will draw a renewed attention to how womankind feature in the Dutch colonial project and its civilizing mission in the Tayouan factory on Formosa.
Ann Heylen is Professor at the Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages
and Literature (TCLL) at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) and currently serves as
the Director of the International Taiwan Studies Center, College of Liberal Arts at NTNU.
She holds a Ph.D. in Chinese Studies (Sinology) from Catholic University Leuven, Belgium.
She is editor-in-chief of the East Asian Journal of Popular Culture (EAJPC, Intellect). Her
publications cover the history and historiography of Taiwan, with special attention to Dutch
Formosa, the Japanese colonial period (1895-1945).
Wednesday 10 April 24, 18.30 -20.00, SIN 1 (Altes AKH, Campus of the University of Vienna, Hof 2, Entrance 2.3, 1090, Vienna)[+] Show More
active
Ian Rowen, 03. November, 2023
Liberation and Literature: From Martial Law to Transitional Justice in ...
Liberation and Literature: From Martial Law to Transitional Justice in Taiwan
As one of her first gestures upon taking office, President Tsai Ing-wen announced a plan to set up a truth ...and reconciliation commission. ‘For the new democratic system to move forward,’ she said in her 2016 inauguration speech, ‘we must first find a way to face the past together.’ She continued by remarking that, ‘The goal of transitional justice is to pursue true social reconciliation, so that all Taiwanese can take to heart the mistakes of that [authoritarian] era.’
This talk assesses the motivations, conduct, and outcomes of such projects. It contends that, for Taiwan as a contested state, transitional justice projects served as part of a legitimation strategy that included consolidation of a collective memory about earlier authoritarian state violence, cultural and political distinction from the irredentism and authoritarianism of China, and demonstration of adherence to international norms of democracy and human rights. As examples of the effects of the
projects, it presents the speaker’s edited volume of literature in translation, Transitions in Taiwan: Stories of the White Terror, as well as public statements asserting Taiwan’s sovereignty published by members of the Indigenous Historical Justice and Transitional Justice Committee.
Ian Rowen is Associate Professor in the Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature at National Taiwan Normal University. He is the author of One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism (Cornell University Press,
2022), and the editor of Transitions in Taiwan: Stories of the White Terror (Cambria Press,
2021). Previously an assistant professor of Geography and Sociology at Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore, he earned his PhD in Geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
