Junwei Lu

Email:j.lu.1@research.gla.ac.uk, jun-wei.lu@glasgow.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.

Supervisors

Grants

  • The Quarterly Travel Fund (PGR), BAFTSS, 2025.
  • Young Scholars Program travel grant from NATPA, 2025. 
  • Conference waiver from Screen Studies Conference, 2025.
  • SGSAH internship scheme, 2025.
  • Bursary from Global Circulations of Film Theory Conference, 2024
  • Travel Grant from Transgressive Women in East Asian Screen Cultures Symposium, 2024
  • College of Arts and Humanities Research Support Funding, 2024 
  • School Research Committee Funding, 2024 

Conferences

  • "Staging Belonging: Children on School Sports Day in Taiwanese Cinema"Sport Politics: Histories, Media, Identities International Conference, Sapienza University of Rome, Sep 25-27, 2025.

  • "Transnational Cinema Network in Cold War Asia: Affection from Taipei to Saigon," The Sixth International Conference on the Film Histories of Taiwan and Asia Cinema, National Chengchi Univeristy, Aug 23-24, 2025 

  • "Questioning Children and Nation: A Cinematic Retrospection of Taiwanese History," 2025 North America Taiwanese Professors’ Association (NATPA) Annual Conference, Seattle, Aug 3-10, 2025. 

  • "Echoes of the Orphan: Translocalism and Operatic Return in Taiwanese Cinema," Screen Studies Conference 2025, University of Glasgow, June 27-29, 2025.

  • “Cinematic marginal childhood: an overlooked perspective in Taiwanese film history,” Workshop for Early Career Scholars on Taiwan Studies, Taiwan Research Hub, University of Nottingham, June 4, 2025.

  • "Childhood Memory confronts colonialism: the duality of locality and globality in Taiwanese home movies," BAFTSS 2025, University of Warwick, March 26-28, 2025.

  • “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  

  • “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  

Teaching

Level 1 Screen Histories; Sociology; Introduction to Creative Practices; Mandarin

Level 2 Cultural Analysis and Creative Practices 

Additional Information

Director of Taiwan Film Festival in Scotland since 2025


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