{"id":3900,"date":"2024-02-23T04:34:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T04:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/?p=3900"},"modified":"2024-06-18T21:43:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T21:43:20","slug":"book-talk-island-x-with-wendy-cheng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/2024\/02\/23\/book-talk-island-x-with-wendy-cheng\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Talk: Island X with Wendy Cheng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Wednesday, April 24 from 3:30 to 5pm in THO 317 and online<\/strong>, the UW Taiwan Studies Program welcomed Professor Wendy Cheng to discuss her newest book entitled <em>Island X: <span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism. <\/span><\/em><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Wendy delves into the compelling political lives of Taiwanese migrants who came to the United States as students from the 1960s through the 1980s. Often depicted as compliant model minorities, many were in fact deeply political, shaped by Taiwan&#8217;s colonial history and influenced by the global social movements of their time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Drawing on interviews with student activists and extensive archival research, Wendy Cheng documents how Taiwanese Americans developed tight-knit social networks as infrastructures for identity formation, consciousness development, and anticolonial activism. Raising questions about historical memory and Cold War circuits of power, Island X is a testament to the lives and advocacy of a generation of Taiwanese American activists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m11QIVEObi4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3901 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/Wendy-Cheng-bio-photo-full-size-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/Wendy-Cheng-bio-photo-full-size-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/Wendy-Cheng-bio-photo-full-size-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/Wendy-Cheng-bio-photo-full-size-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/Wendy-Cheng-bio-photo-full-size-530x353.jpeg 530w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/Wendy-Cheng-bio-photo-full-size-800x534.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/Wendy-Cheng-bio-photo-full-size-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/Wendy-Cheng-bio-photo-full-size-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/Wendy-Cheng-bio-photo-full-size-375x250.jpeg 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/Wendy-Cheng-bio-photo-full-size-750x500.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/Wendy-Cheng-bio-photo-full-size-1140x760.jpeg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>Wendy Cheng<\/strong> is Professor of American Studies at Scripps College. She received her A.B. from Harvard University in English and American Language and Literature, her M.A. in Geography from UC Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity from the University of Southern California. She is the author of The Changs Next Door to the D\u00edazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), which won the 2014 Book Award from the American Sociological Association\u2019s Section on Asia and Asian America, and coauthor of A People\u2019s Guide to Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2012), which won the Association of American Geographers\u2019 Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography and the SCIBA Nonfiction Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, April 24 from 3:30 to 5pm in THO 317 and online, the UW Taiwan Studies Program welcomed Professor Wendy Cheng to discuss her newest book entitled Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism. 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