Junwei Lu

Email:j.lu.1@research.gla.ac.uk

 

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-371X

Research title: A Genealogical Investigation of Taiwan Childhood Cinema

Research Summary

My research focuses on Taiwanese childhood cinema, exploring its development and transformations through a genealogical lens. The study investigates how childhood is depicted in Taiwanese films, reflecting cultural, social, and historical shifts. By examining themes such as identity, migration, and multiculturalism, the research sheds light on the evolving narratives of childhood in Taiwan and their broader implications.

Publications

 

 

Supervisors

Grants

  • College of Arts and Humanities Research Support Funding, 2024 
  • School Research Committee Funding, 2024 

Conference

  • “Examining Film Theory in a non-institutionalised State: Film Theory Curricula in Taiwan Higher Education”, Global Circulations of Film Theory Conference, King’s College London, Aug 30-31, 2024 
  • “Reversing Indigenous Imagination: Case Study on Taiwanese Filmmaker Laha Mebow”, Transgressive Women in East Asian Screen Cultures Symposium, Cardiff University, May 23-24, 2024  
  • “Hang in there, kids!” De-colonisation film screening series, The Alchemist Experiment, May 8, 2024 
  • “Marvellous Encounter: Searching for American Impact in Taiwanese Newsreels (1950-1970)”, The First Graduate Symposium on Asian Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, April 13-14, 2024.
  • “Walking through the Amateur Camera: Visualisation of Children in Colonial Taiwan”, IAMHIST Master Class and Symposium: Hidden Archives: Marginalised and Alternative Collections and Practices, Irish Film Institute, Jan 29-30, 2024  
  • “How Come We Are Silenced: An Inter-Asian Comparative Analysis on Children Sexual Violence Films”, Representations of Violence in Literature and Other Media, Ghent University, May 4-5, 2023 
  • Lu, Junwei, 2022.11, “The Genealogy of Comedian in Taiwan: Ti Ko-liōng, from the Club Show to the Screen.” The Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2022(Postponed from 2020), The Association for Cultural Studies.
  • Lu, Junwei, 2021.08, "A comparative study of the tendency and development in films distribution market between Taiwan and Vietnam.” 2021 Annual Conference of Southeast Asian Studies in Taiwan, National Sun Yat-sen University Center of Southeast Asian Studies.
  • Lu, Junwei, 2021.01, "Seen and Unseen How the Childhood Reflected in Taiwan Horror Film the Tag-Along Series." EAPCA II, The East Asian Popular Culture Association.

Teaching

2024-2025 Level 1 Screen Histories