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蔣經國的台灣時代 (1949-1988)
Lecture Theatre H
2020年2月，美國史丹佛大學胡佛檔案館正式對外界公開蔣經國私人日記，這是繼2006年蔣介石日記開放後，另一件引起全球華人社會與學術界矚目的盛事。1988年1月13日蔣經國在"總統" 任內離世後，三十多年來，其歷史地位與評價仁智互見，也引發不少討論。本次演講以大量中、英文檔案史料為基礎，包括蔣經國日記與各地解密檔案，揭示1949年後蔣經國在台灣的政治活動，本次演講特別著重於他處理涉外關係 (台美、台蘇關係)、台灣內部政治運作與演變、以及兩岸關係三個面向。1949至1988年蔣經國的從政經歷與權力之路，在一定程度上何嘗不是二次戰後國民黨在台灣各方面發展的一個縮影。 READ MORE...
Envisioning Encounters: Missionary Filmmaking as Transnational Documentary in Twentieth Century China
Across the first half of the twentieth century, American Protestant and Catholic missionaries in China produced vernacular films situated between embeddedness in local communities, contested nation-building, and Sino-US interests. Equipment-oriented engagements, influenced by international amateur film culture, drove new ways of seeing and believing. With encounters mediated by mobile film production, missionaries and Chinese Christians saw themselves as collaborators in filmmaking experiences as well as actors linking global religious and secular communities with modern visual imaginations. Behind the lens and on-screen, they helped to shape American religious and cultural influence in China while embodying cross-cultural identities, wartime traumas, and shifting modernities. In the process, missionary films blended iconography, humanitarian perspectives, and documentary impulses with vernacular visualities – ranging from private family images to eyewitness records of military atrocities and regime change. They created a mediatory visual language that transcended national borders and secular-religious divides. Some films escaped their missionary mold and entered transpacific imaginations, coming to be as much about future perceptions as about present realities. In this talk, Prof. Joseph W. Ho traces the odysseys of cameras and footage framed by evolving historical milieus and transnational visions. In doing so, he reconstructs a hitherto unexplored visual fabric – embodied in miles of 16mm film and orphaned filmmaking technologies – that bridged the American missionary enterprise and modern China. READ MORE...