Hsu, Kuo-Ming

Affiliated School/Unit

Social Engagement Center, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Past Experience

Kuo-Ming Hsu is a current postdoctoral researcher in National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU) Social Engagement Center, and the advisory committee member of the Hakka Affairs Council (HAC). He was awarded a PhD in Chinese Literature by National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) in 2021.

 

He had assumed the role of Principal Investigator in related projects held by the Ministry of Culture, the Hakka Affairs Council, the National Culture and Arts Foundation, and the Kaohsiung City Government.

 

His academic research focuses on multiple areas, including Taiwan indigenous documentary films, Taiwan literature, Liugdui Hakka culture, and community empowerment. The research results are published in several important scholarly journals in Taiwan.

 

He is one of the authors of the book Post-Indigenous Movement, Gender and Ethnicity: the Portraits of Contemporary Indigenous Feminist. Otherwise, he had participated in The Taiwan Literature Archives project (http://twlit.blogspot.tw/), planning on the structure of thematic websites themed with the indigenous writer Walis Nokan, and the indigenous film director Pilin Yapu.

Research

Kuo-ming Hsu (2021), A Survey of Development of Contemporary Indigenous Documentary in Taiwan (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan.

 

Kuo-ming Hsu (2017), “The Production and Construction of Locality: The Fengshui Practice from the Cultivation Legends of Liuk Tui Hakka Settlements.” Jornal of the Chinese Department, National Chung Hsing University Vol. 41: 255-78.

 

Kuo-ming Hsu (2016), “The Changes and Transformation of Spiritual Tradition:

Intermediate Practice of Culture Medium in the Ethnographic Films by Tai-Li Hu.” Soochow Journal of Chinese Studies Vol. 32: 271-92. (THCI)

 

Kuo-ming Hsu (co-authored with Tsui Yang and Shu-chun Li. 2015). Post-Indigenous Movement, Gender and Ethnicity: the Portraits of Contemporary Indigenous Feminist. Taiwan Historica Press. (ISBN：978-986-04-5346-1)

 

Kuo-ming Hsu (co-authored with Min-xu Zhan. 2015), “When Multiple Sinophone Literatures: Meet Entanglements between Taiwan and the Sinophone World.” Chung Wai Literary Quarterly Vol. 448: 25-62. (THCI)

 

Kuo-ming Hsu (2014), “When Myth Becomes History: Construction of History and Cultural Politics of the Indigenous People in Taiwan in the 1990s.” Journal of Taiwan Literary Studies Vol. 19: 89-113. (THCI)

 

Kuo-ming Hsu (2013), “The Politics and Aesthetics of Community Documentaries in Taiwan: A case study of Meinung’s Community Documentaries from 1999 to 2009.” Journal of Taiwan Literary Studies Vol. 17: 55-79. (THCI)