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Visiting Fellow at The University of Melbourne
Each year, in conjunction with The University of
Melbourne, The Mangold Trust funds the appointment of a visiting
scholar at the University.
The 2011 Mangold Visiting Fellow
was Professor Hsien-Hao Sebastian Liao, Professor of
English and Comparative Literature at the Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University, Taipei,
Taiwan.
Professor Liao presented the 2011 Walter Mangold Lecture
on Thursday 27th October at the Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University
of Melbourne.
Professor Liao was introduced by Professor Pookong
Kee, Director of the Asia Institute at Melbourne University,
who later hosted a dinner for invited guests at University
House.
Professor Hsien-Hao Sebastian Liao's lecture was
entitled, ‘The Romance of the Three Kins: The
Taiwan-Japan-Mainland China Triangular Relationship Seen Through
the Japan Imaginary in Taiwanese Film.’
This title refers to Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a
14th century Chinese classic widely known in northeast Asia; an
example of the exciting culture flows, hybridity and identity
construction in the region now evident in recent Taiwanese films
like Cape 7.
Professor Hsien-Hao Sebastian Liao received his PhD from
Stanford University and did post-doctoral study at Harvard
University. His research scope includes Chinese and foreign
literature: in particular, literary and cultural theory, modernity
and post-modernity, Chinese and Western comparative poetics,
Anglo/American modern poetry, post modern novels, film poetics and
Taiwanese modern literature.
Previous Mangold Visiting Fellows have included:
2010 - Professor Shuhei Hosokawa from the International
Research Centre for Japanese Studies in Japan.
2009 - Professor Yong Zhao, the Director of the Center of
Technology and Teaching and Director of the US-China Center for
Research on Educational Excellence at the University of
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