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Tuesday
07
MAY

01:00 PM

Security community vs. Global South—Taiwan’s coloniality

SHIH Chih-yu

The former colonizers had already decided not to resort to waging wars between themselves when engaging in colonial conquest and exploitation. Instead, they crafted and subscribed to rules-based order. However, organizations of former colonies remind Europe of the unrestrained Westphalian states, the Axis states in particular, that existed before WWII. This realization and its concomitant remedy in terms of rules-based order is self-defeating to the extent that they together distract attention away from the double causes of the governmental incapacity in the Global South networking; namely, the legacies of the past colonialism and perpetuation of colonial relations following the nominal decolonization. Consequently, the de facto alliance of colonizers of the Western security community inflicts a kind of epistemicide on the former colonies that is simultaneously the self-epistemicide of Europe that seeks to forget and forgive colonialism.
If time permits, either during the lecture or during our class discussion, I will discuss how Sun Yatsen’s use of East Asia to transcend territorial fixation could have inspired decolonization but its failure to develop in Taiwan during the Cold War attests to the abortion and implausibility of decolonization.

Chih-yu Shih is National Chair Professor of the Ministry of Education and University Chair Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University. With his concept of Post-Chineseness and combining the fields of international relations, cultural politics, and intellectual history, Shih boldly challenges the essentialized notion of Chineseness in existing scholarship through the revelation of the multiplicity and complexity of the uses of Chineseness by strategically conceived insiders, outsiders, and those in-between. He is the author and editor of many books, including Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Studies of China and Chineseness: Unlearning Binaries, Strategizing Self and Post-Chineseness: Cultural Politics and International Relations.

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Institut für Sinologie

010.01.05

Voßstraße 2

69115 Heidelberg

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Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Taiwan Lecture Series 2024 ':

This year’s Taiwan Lecture Series is devoted to questioning Sinophone Authenticities from cross-sectional perspectives. Approaching the topic In Search for Home—Authenticity and Chineseness in Taiwan and the SinophoneWworld, it will consist of four sections, and offer views from art, politics, literature and gender studies. It will begin with a section “Contesting Home—Artistic Renderings” with Taiwan Sound and Visual Artist, FENG Chi-han (Taiwan/Hong Kong), a second section on “Post-Chineseness in Taiwan Politics” with SHIH Chih-yu (National Taiwan University), a third on “Travel Writing and Taiwan Identities” with LIN Shu-hui (National Taiwan Normal University), and a last on “Homing Feminism in the Sinophone World” with Paola ZAMPERINI (Northwestern University).

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Security community vs. Global South—Taiwan’s coloniality

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