LEE Ming-Tsung

Institution: Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University

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Brief Self Introduction:
   I was awarded Ph.D. in Social Anthropology in 2005 from the King’s College, University of Cambridge. My thesis title is “Absorbing ‘Japan’: Transnational Media, Cross-cultural Consumption, and Identity Practice in Contemporary Taiwan”. Owing to my ethnographic fieldwork-in-Tokyo, in 2001, I once served as a visiting researcher in the Institute of Asian Cultural Studies at International Christian University (ICU). At present I am teaching in the Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University. My research interests are Material/Media Culture, Cross-cultural Consumption, Urban/Lifestyle Transformation as well as Japanese/Taiwanese Identities. Now I am also doing a comparative study of the sojourn experiences between Taiwanese students-in-Japan and Japanese students-in-Taiwan. Besides, I served as the Deputy President of Amnesty International (AI) in Taiwan during 2008-2010, as well as the Standing Director of Cultural Studies Association (CSA) from February of 2011 till now. In addition to academic publication, I wrote a book entitled “Thing-ology” in 2009 and joined to launch a film magazine entitled “Cue” in 2010.

Main Publications:
1. 李明璁，2010，〈台北西門町に見る東京的消費風景─脱領域から再領域化へ〉，西川潤・蕭新煌編，《東アジア新時代の日本と台湾》，東京: 明石書店。

2. Ming-Tsung Lee, 2009, “Traveling the ‘Post-colonial’:The Cultural Hybridization of the Young Taiwanese Harizu and Japanese Hataizu”, paper presented in SEAA & TSAE 2009 Annual Conference. (15/7/2009, Taipei)

3. Ming-Tsung Lee, 2009, "De/Re-territorialized Ximending: The Imagination and Construction of 'Quasi-Tokyo' Consuming Landscapes", in Cultural Studies, No. 9.

4. Ming-Tsung Lee, 2006, "Too Late 'Nation', Too Fast 'Post-nation'?--Review on June Yip, Envisioning Taiwan (2004)", in Taiwanese Journal of Sociology, No. 36.

5. Ming-Tsung Lee, 2004, “Traveling with Japanese TV Dramas: Cross-cultural Orientation and Flowing Identification of Contemporary Taiwanese Youth” in Feeling ‘Asian’ Modernities, Koichi Iwabuchi (ed.), Hong Kong University Press.

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