City of Yearning: Space, Time, and Movement in Turn of the 21st Century Taipei —Summer 2024 - Present
Skills:
Mandarin Chinese
Zine Design
Map Storytelling
Drawing
Research
This is the zine and research paper for my honors thesis, “City of Yearning: Space, Time, and Movement in Tsai Ming-liang’s Turn of the 21st Century Taipei.” I was selected as a recipient for the $9000 Stanford VPUE Independent Research Grant, wherein I spent a summer in Taipei traversing urban landscapes, analyzing historical archives, and watching films depicting 1990s-2000s Taipei. Here is some of my work.
Advised by Ato Quayson and Ban Wang
Queue the theme song of my project, a song I chose by Changin’ My Life, an early 2000s J-pop band. Here, I pay homage to Japanese media influence and globalization in 90s/00s Taipei!
Here is the cover of my 44-page, matte-finished, full color zine! This page is in progress and will be updated with more information about the zine and thesis project soon.
