The University of Sheffield
School of East Asian Studies

Dr Jeremy Taylor

BA (Sydney), PhD (ANU)

Dr Jeremy Taylor

Lecturer


Email: jeremy.taylor@sheffield.ac.uk

Research

Jeremy E. Taylor works on the social, political and cultural history of the Chinese-speaking world. He is the author of Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinemas: The Amoy-dialect Film Industry in Cold War Asia (London: Routledge, 2011). His work, on topics ranging from the Chiang Kai-shek personality cult to Hong Kong historiography, has been published in leading Area Studies and History journals. He is also the author of a number of book chapters and encyclopaedia entries.

Teaching

Dr Taylor is the module organiser and tutor for the following modules:

  • EAS143: East Asian History

  • EAS223: Revolution and Modernity: China, 1914-78

  • EAS366: Taiwan in the Twentieth Century


He also teaches translation classes as part of the Chinese language programme.

Dr Taylor is the founder of theChinese History Teaching Network, which is supported by the History Subject Centre at the Higher Education Academy.

Research Supervision

Dr Taylor is currently supervising the following PhD students:

  • Sven Matthiessen: Pan-Asianism and the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines


  • Nele Glang: German business in China during the 1930s


  • Wei-an Yang: Chinese female emigration to Singapore, 1900-42 (History Department, Sheffield; second supervisor)


Dr Taylor also serves as the SEAS Research Degree Tutor.

He welcomes applications from potential students working on various aspects of modern Asian history.

Publications

Books:

  • Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinemas: The Amoy- dialect Film Industry in Cold War Asia (London: Routledge, 2011)


Journal articles:

  • “QuJianghua: Disposing of and re-appraising the remnants of Chiang Kai-shek’s reign on Taiwan”, Journal of Contemporary History 45.1 (2010.1): 181-196.


  • “ ‘Our native place – our cinema’: Nation, state and colony in the Amoy-dialect film industry of the 1950s”, Journal of Chinese Overseas 5.2 (2009.11): 235-256.


  • “The reluctant embassy: Establishing, maintaining and ending Australian diplomatic representation in Taipei, 1966-1972”, Asian Studies Review 33.2 (2009.6): 197-210.


  • “Being a ‘Friend of Free China’: W. G. Goddard in Nationalist Taiwan”, Chinese Historical Review 16.2 (Fall 2009): 100-119.


  • “Discovering a Nationalist heritage in present-day Taiwan”, China Heritage Quarterly 17 (2009.3)


  • “From transnationalism to nativism? The rise, decline and reinvention of a regional Hokkien entertainment industry”, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 9.1 (2008.3): 62-81.


  • “Taipei’s ‘Britisher’: W.G. Goddard and the promotion of Nationalist China in the Cold-War Commonwealth”, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 9.2 (2007.12): 126-146.


  • “Recycling personality cults: observations of the reactions to Madame Chiang Kai-Shek’s death in Taiwan”, Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 7.3 (2006.9): 347-363.


  • “The production of the Chiang Kai-shek personality cult, 1929-1975”, The China Quarterly 185 (2006.3): 96-110.


  • “Images of the hometown: the clash of city and village in Taiwanese popular songs”, Chime 16-17 (2005): 72-87.


  • “Colonial Takao: the making of a southern metropolis”, Urban History 31.1 (2004.5): 48-71.


  • “Nation, topography, and historiography: writing topographical histories in Hong Kong”, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 15.2 (Fall 2003): 45-74.


  • “Reading colonial texts: some thoughts from Taipei”, Rethinking History 7.2 (2003.6): 235-241.


  • “The bund: littoral space of empire in the treaty ports of East Asia”, Social History 27.2 (2002.5): 125-142.


  • “Preserving the remnants of empire in Taiwan: the case of Hamaxing”, East Asian History 21 (2001.6): 143-164.


Book Chapters:

  • “Reading history through the built environment”, in John Makeham and A-chin Hsiau (eds), Cultural, Ethnic, and Political Nationalism in Taiwan: Bentuhua (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), pp. 159-183.


  • “Pop music as postcolonial nostalgia in contemporary Taiwan”, in Ned Rossiter and Allen Chun (eds), Refashioning Pop Music in Asia: Cosmopolitan Flows, Political Tempos and Aesthetic Industries (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004), pp. 173-182.


  • “Rome wasn’t built in a day: Zuoying and the discourse of civilisation”, in Christina Neder (ed), Transformation! Innovation? Taiwan in its Cultural Dimensions (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 2003), pp. 29-44.


Encyclopaedia entries:

  • “Hong Kong”, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).


  • Contributing editor to Singapore: The Encyclopedia (Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, 2006).