East Asian Transwar Popular Culture

Pei-yin Lin is Associate Professor at the School of Chinese, University of Hong Kong, and received her Ph.D. in Languages and Cultures of East Asia from SOAS, University of London. She previously taught at the National University of Singapore and England (Cambridge and SOAS), and was a visiting scholar at Harvard Yenching Institute (2015-16). Among her major publications are her monograph Colonial Taiwan: Negotiating Identities and Modernity through Literature (2017), and two edited volumes- Print, Profit, and Perception: Ideas, Information and Knowledge in Chinese Societies, 1895-1949 (2014) and Border-crossing and In-betweenness (2016).
Su Yun Kim is Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at the University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. in Literature at the University of California, San Diego and specializes in modern Korean literature and culture. Her interests include imperialism and colonialism in East Asia; gender and sexuality; colonialism and race; and popular narratives. She is currently completing her first monograph on fictions of romance and marriage between Koreans and Japanese in colonial Korea. Her second project examines the production of popular fiction on romance and the family in twentieth-century Korea.