Junwei Lu
Email:j.lu.1@research.gla.ac.uk
https://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
- Lu, Junwei, 2022.07, The Genealogy of Comedian in Taiwan: Ti Ko-liōng, from the Club Show to the Screen (斜／諧議台灣電影史：豬哥亮的喜劇研究), Cultural Studies Quarterly (文化研究季刊), 178:44-68.
- Lu, Junwei, 2020.07, Post-Revolution to Post-Anti-Revolution: Revisit Huang Jianxin’s Filmography from the Perspective of Political Economy of Communication (後革命到「後不革命」：以傳播政治經濟學視角重探黃建新的創作變遷), Journal of Audio-visual Media and Technologies (廣播與電視期刊) ,40: 69-112.
Supervisors
Grants
- 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
- "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
