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Guest Lecture Jung-Jen Tsai 18.06.2026 cam, slides
It examines their key role in constructing state ideology ...and the spatial practice of power. Tsai’s research indicates that the authoritarian government translated political will into concrete architectural forms through a specific ‘visual rhetoric’, thereby shaping public collective memory and cultural identity.
Through an examination of iconic landmarks such as Chung-shan Hall, the National Palace Museum, Sun Yat-sen
Memorial Hall, and Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, the lecture demonstrates how the authoritarian regime employed a visual rhetoric of 're-Sinicization' to reconstruct the legitimacy of Chinese orthodoxy on Taiwanese soil, effectively erasing the ‘remnants of the colonial landscapes’ from the Japanese era. Beyond the archaic appearance, this architectural language is not merely an aesthetic choice, but a profound political manifesto.Show More
Guest Lecture Jung-Jen Tsai 18.06.2026 cam, slides
This lecture focuses on how architectural styles served as a political ...
Guest Lecture Dafydd Fell 27/05/2026
Debating China under the Shadow of the 1995-6 Cross-Strait Missile ...
Partners in need, partners indeed? Tracking Europe–Taiwan relations amidst global disruption (CEIAS)
Part of: Vienna Taiwan Lecture Series The Department of East Asian ...