Feeling Taiwan
Emotions in Everyday Politics, Social Movements, and Research
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 7. April 2026
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-041-09652-8 (ISBN)
Description
In re-centring emotion in Taiwan Studies, a field long dominated by rationalist approaches, this interdisciplinary volume highlights how feelings-of belonging, grief, intimacy, distrust, and ambivalence-shape political life, social formations, and scholarly practice.
Its chapters range across colonial legacies, transitional justice, queer kinship, migrant representation, public health, disability, and more-than-human ethics, showing how emotions illuminate everyday experiences and reframe academic inquiry. By foregrounding feeling as both method and object, Feeling Taiwan benefits readers by offering new ways to interpret Taiwan's histories and futures, while also modelling how to integrate reflexivity, positionality, and affect into research practice. It demonstrates that studying Taiwan is never only an intellectual endeavour, but also an affective one-an engagement that invites readers to reimagine scholarship, community, and otherwise.
The book will appeal to scholars and students in Taiwan Studies, Asian Studies, sociology, anthropology, political science, cultural studies, and gender/sexuality studies, as well as to researchers interested in the "affective turn".
Its chapters range across colonial legacies, transitional justice, queer kinship, migrant representation, public health, disability, and more-than-human ethics, showing how emotions illuminate everyday experiences and reframe academic inquiry. By foregrounding feeling as both method and object, Feeling Taiwan benefits readers by offering new ways to interpret Taiwan's histories and futures, while also modelling how to integrate reflexivity, positionality, and affect into research practice. It demonstrates that studying Taiwan is never only an intellectual endeavour, but also an affective one-an engagement that invites readers to reimagine scholarship, community, and otherwise.
The book will appeal to scholars and students in Taiwan Studies, Asian Studies, sociology, anthropology, political science, cultural studies, and gender/sexuality studies, as well as to researchers interested in the "affective turn".
Reviews / Votes
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- Muzzo (Muzaffer) Uysal, University of Massachusetts, US
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- Cathy H.C. Hsu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
2 s/w Zeichnungen, 7 s/w Abbildungen, 5 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
2 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Halftones, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
598 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-041-09652-8 (9781041096528)
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Additional editions
Po-Han Lee | Alvaro Martinez-Lacabe | Yu-chin Tseng
Feeling Taiwan
Emotions in Everyday Politics, Social Movements, and Research
E-Book
04/2026
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Po-Han Lee | Alvaro Martinez-Lacabe | Yu-chin Tseng
Feeling Taiwan
Emotions in Everyday Politics, Social Movements, and Research
E-Book
04/2026
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Persons
Po-Han Lee is an Associate Professor in the Global Health Program and the Institute of Health Policy and Management at National Taiwan University. Trained in International Law in Taiwan and holding a PhD in Sociology from the United Kingdom. His research and activism engage critically with issues of gender, sexuality, disability, and health justice, and his recent scholarship explores feminist, queer, and decolonial approaches to global health law and the politics of knowledge in human rights, aiming to connect theory with social transformation.
Alvaro Martinez-Lacabe is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Society and Environment at Queen Mary University of London. His research explores the intersections of critical public health, queer studies, and activist networks, with a particular focus on HIV/AIDS prevention and the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV. He has published in journals including Culture, Health & Sexuality, and Critical Public Health.
Yu-chin Tseng is an Associate Fellow at the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan, University of Tuebingen. She previously served as a Junior Professor in the Department of Chinese Studies at Tuebingen from 2018 to 2025. Her research critically examines migration, intimacy, and state power in politically sensitive regions, particularly China and Taiwan. Tseng has published in leading journals such as the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies and the Journal of Contemporary China. Her interdisciplinary scholarship bridges sociology, migration studies, and Asian politics, offering incisive analyses of emotion, aspiration, and mobility within the context of global migration.
Alvaro Martinez-Lacabe is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Society and Environment at Queen Mary University of London. His research explores the intersections of critical public health, queer studies, and activist networks, with a particular focus on HIV/AIDS prevention and the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV. He has published in journals including Culture, Health & Sexuality, and Critical Public Health.
Yu-chin Tseng is an Associate Fellow at the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan, University of Tuebingen. She previously served as a Junior Professor in the Department of Chinese Studies at Tuebingen from 2018 to 2025. Her research critically examines migration, intimacy, and state power in politically sensitive regions, particularly China and Taiwan. Tseng has published in leading journals such as the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies and the Journal of Contemporary China. Her interdisciplinary scholarship bridges sociology, migration studies, and Asian politics, offering incisive analyses of emotion, aspiration, and mobility within the context of global migration.
Content
1. Introduction Part 1 Affective Geopolitics and Incomplete Transitional Justice 2. 'I've Never Been to Me'?Apathy, Military Songs, and Transitional Justice in Taiwan 3. Arts and Transitional Justice in Taiwan: An Affective Approach 4. Embracing Emotions as a Method in the Research Process: Reflections on Imagining and 'Feeling' Fieldwork in Taiwan 5. Memes and Milk Tea Alliances: Reframing Geopolitical Discourses of Taiwan and its Neighbors through Ludic Activism Part 2 Emotional Colonisation and Coloniality in Multiple Forms 6. Expressing Emotions in a Colonial Text:Huang Fengzi's Taiwan no shojo (A Young Girl of Taiwan) 7. From Hong Kong to Taiwan: A Reflexive Journey Through Emotion, Identity, and Community 8. Destroyed Houses, Incomplete Lives: Suffering, Madness, and the Unfinished Project of Transitional Justice for the Tao of Lanyu 9. Affective Dimensions of Han Settler Colonialism: Autoethnographic Reflections from a Transnational Taiwan Studies Scholar Part 3 Intimacies, Sexualities, and Feeling Attached/Unattached 10. Making Multifaceted 'Affective Relatedness': Emotions in Gay Men's Reproductive Orientations and the Researcher's Navigations of Insider-Outsider Positionality 11. From Swipe to Follow: Algorithmic Romance Work in Taiwan's Digital Dating Culture 12. Attached: The Refashioning of Affective Marginal Citizens in a Biomedical Era 13. Visible Yet Absent: The Emotional Politics of Migrant Representation in Taiwanese Media Part 4 Everyday Politics of Morality, Mundaneness, and Feelings 14. Emotions at Stake in the Lying Flat Phenomenon: Looking at Alternative Life Choices Among Taiwanese Youth 15. Am I a Qualified Researcher? Discomfort and Reflexive Practice in Feminist Disability Studies from a Non-disabled Male Perspective 16. Emotion as Important Public Health Data: COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Low Socioeconomic Status Communities in Taiwan 17. Trans-Species Affect and Ecological Emotion: Reconfiguring the Taiwan Island with Shan-jiao-yu