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Jeremy Taylor

Professor of Modern History, Faculty of Arts

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Biography

Professor Taylor holds a PhD in history from the Australian National University. He works on the modern cultural, social and political history of East and Southeast Asia, and his research, on topics ranging from Diasporic film history to modern personality cults, has been supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, the European Research Council and other organisations. He is the author of (Routledge 2011) and (Hawaii University Press, 2021). He is the editor of a three-book series on 'Histories of Occupation' published by Bloomsbury in 2021-22: , and . He is also the editor (with Lanjun Xu) of (Routledge 2021). In addition, his work has been published in almost 30 different journals, including , , , and .

Expertise Summary

Professor Taylor works on a number of fields, including the cultural history of wartime 'collaboration' in East and Southeast Asia; Chinese-language media and popular culture in Cold War East and Southeast Asia (especially Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines); the historiography and memorialisation of Chiang Kai-shek; propaganda and personality cults in Republican China; maritime and port heritage in the Chinese-speaking world; and memory and historiography of Japanese colonial rule in Taiwan.

Teaching Summary

Professor Taylor has supervised PhD dissertations on a range of topics, including comic books in Mao's China; pan-Asianism in the Japanese-occupied Philippines; Chinese immigration to colonial-era… read more

Research Summary

Professor Taylor is currently leading two externally-funded projects:

'Documenting Wartime Collaboration: Scholarly Geopolitics and Transnational Re-assessments of the Wang Jingwei Regime' is 3-year research project that examines the ways in which contemporary geo-politics is shaping scholarly re-assessments of the 'collaborationist' Chinese regime of Wang Jingwei (which ruled large sections of east and south China under Japanese occupation during World War II) across the world today. Institutional partners on the project include and in Taipei. The project is funded by the .

'Resettling the Colonial Lens: Photographs and the (Re)Making of Malaysia's New Villages' is a 3-year, -funded project which examines what role photography as a medium played in documenting, critiquing and re-writing the history of resettlement in late-colonial Malaya. It involves a number of project partners, including , and . This project builds on work on the Malayan Emergency that Professor Taylor has published in the and .

Recent Publications

  • TAYLOR, J. E. and XU, LANJUN, eds., 2022. Routledge.
  • TAYLOR, J. E., 2022. . In: TAYLOR, J. E. and XU, LANJUN, eds., Chineseness and the Cold War: Contested Cultures and Diaspora in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong Routledge.
  • TAYLOR, J. E., 2022. . In: TAYLOR, J. E. and XU, LANJUN, eds., Chineseness and the Cold War: Contested Cultures and Diaspora in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong Routledge.
  • SKELCHY, R. P. and TAYLOR, J. E., eds., 2022. Bloomsbury Academic.

Professor Taylor has supervised PhD dissertations on a range of topics, including comic books in Mao's China; pan-Asianism in the Japanese-occupied Philippines; Chinese immigration to colonial-era Singapore; and Sino-German relations during WWII. He is currently supervising PhD theses on memorials in the Philippines, music in Japanese-occupied Beijing, and spaces of consumption in Hong Kong housing estates from the 1950s through to the 1980s. He is happy to supervise PhD projects in the broad field of modern Asian cultural history.

Past Research

Professor Taylor was the PI on the European Research Council-funded project 'Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia' (COTCA), from 2016 to 2022, to the value of over 1.8 million euros. This project examined how foreign occupation has shaped cultural expression in modern Asia, from visual, sonic and spatial perspectives. He is currently working on a number of themes which came out of that project, including the visuality of the , the historiography of Japanese-occupied China, the history of in Cold War Asia, and in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

In addition, from 2016 to 2018, Professor Taylor led a British Academy International Mobility and Partnership project entitled 'Cultures of the Chinese Cold War in British Southeast Asia, 1949-1963'. This project examined the cultural dimension of Chinese-language popular culture in Southeast Asia during the Cold War years. This project resulted in the publication of .

Professor Taylor was also PI on an AHRC/GCRF-funded Research Network entitled . This network explored how maritime heritage is managed, conserved and interpreted in Chinese port cities, and in the context of a burgeoning marine economy in China. The network was recently highlighted in the published by the Praxis Project.

From 2012 to 2013, Professor Taylor ran the AHRC-funded project . The project involved an exploration of the continuities in the ways in which Chiang Kai-shek has been visually denigrated by various groups across the twentieth century, and into the 2000s. Professor Taylor continues to work on the historiography around today.

He is also the author of , as well as numerous articles (in journals such as ) on cultural production in the southern Fujianese (Hokkien) dialect.

In earlier years, Professor Taylor worked on the heritage and memory of Japanese colonialism and Republican China in Taiwan. His work on these topics has been published in journals such as , , and .

  • TAYLOR, J. E. and XU, LANJUN, eds., 2022. Routledge.
  • TAYLOR, J. E., 2022. . In: TAYLOR, J. E. and XU, LANJUN, eds., Chineseness and the Cold War: Contested Cultures and Diaspora in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong Routledge.
  • TAYLOR, J. E., 2022. . In: TAYLOR, J. E. and XU, LANJUN, eds., Chineseness and the Cold War: Contested Cultures and Diaspora in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong Routledge.
  • SKELCHY, R. P. and TAYLOR, J. E., eds., 2022. Bloomsbury Academic.
  • BAILLARGEON, D. and TAYLOR, J. E., eds., 2022. Bloomsbury Academic.
  • TAYLOR, J. E., 2022. Cultural and Social History.
  • TAYLOR, J. E., 2022. History of Photography. 46(2-3), 164-183
  • TAYLOR, J. E., 2021. University of Hawaii Press.
  • TAYLOR, J. E., ed., 2021. Bloomsbury Academic.
  • TAYLOR, J. E., 2021. . In: TAYLOR, J. E., ed., Visual Histories of Occupation: A Transcultural Dialogue Bloomsbury. 1-23
  • TAYLOR, J. E., 2021. . In: TAYLOR, J. E., ed., Visual Histories of Occupation: A Transcultural Dialogue Bloomsbury. 269-278
  • TAYLOR, J. E. and YANG, ZHIYI, 2020. European Journal of East Asian Studies. 19(2), 189-207
  • TAYLOR, J. E., 2019. Journal of Chinese History. 3(1), 137-158
  • TAYLOR, J. E., 2019. Journal of Asian Studies. 78(4), 789-808
  • TAYLOR, J. E., 2019. History of Photography. 43(3), 284-307
  • TAYLOR, J. E., 2018.
  • TAYLOR, J. E., 2018. Twentieth Century China. 43(2), 163-180
  • TAYLOR, J. E., 2016. Gender & History. 28(3), 660-686
  • TAYLOR, J.E., 2015. Modern China. 41(4), 406-435
  • TAYLOR, J. E., 2015. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 57(3), 665-693
  • TAYLOR. J. E. (戴杰銘), 2014. 以圖像史料探究汪兆銘政權之政治文化 (糖心原创ing the political culture of the Wang Jingwei regime through visual sources): 從國史館館藏談起 (The Academia Historica Collections) 國史研究通訊 (Academia Historica Research Newsletter). 6, 140-148
  • TAYLOR, J.E., 2013. Modern Asian Studies. 47(5), 1588-1621
  • TAYLOR, J.E., 2013. Journal of the British Association for Chinese Studies. 2, 27-50
  • TAYLOR, J.E. and HUANG, G.C., 2012. International Journal of Asian Studies. 9(1), 99-121
  • TAYLOR, J. E. (戴杰銘), 2012. . In: MAY NG, ed., 香港廈語電影訪蹤 (The traces of Hong Kong's Amoy-dialect films) Hong Kong Film Archive. 64-75
  • TAYLOR, J.E., 2011. Rethinking transnational Chinese cinemas: the Amoy-dialect film industry in cold war Asia Routledge.
  • TAYLOR, J.E., 2010. Journal of Contemporary History. 45(1), 181-196
  • TAYLOR, J.E., 2009. Asian Studies Review. 33(2), 197-210
  • TAYLOR, J.E., 2009. Journal of Chinese Overseas. 5(2), 235 – 256
  • TAYLOR, J.E., 2009. The Chinese Historical Review. 16(2), 208-227
  • TAYLOR, J.E., 2009. China Heritage Quarterly. 17,
  • TAYLOR, J.E., 2008. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. 9(1), 62-81
  • TAYLOR, J.E., 2007. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies. 9(2), 126-146
  • TAYLOR, J.E., 2006. The China Quarterly. 96-110
  • TAYLOR, J.E., 2006. Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions. 7(3), 347-362
  • TAYLOR, J.E., 2005. Reading History Through the Built Environment in Taiwan. In: JOHN MAKEHAM and A-CHIN HSIAU, eds., Cultural, Ethnic and Political Nationalism in Contemporary Taiwan: Bentuhua Palgrave Macmillan. 159-183
  • TAYLOR, J.E., 2005. Images of the Hometown: The Clash of City and Village in Taiwanese Popular Songs Chime: Journal of the European Foundation for Chinese Music Research. 16/17, 72-87
  • TAYLOR, J.E., 2004. Urban History. 31(1), 48-71
  • TAYLOR, J.E., 2004. . In: ALLEN CHUN, NED ROSSITER and BRIAN SHOESMITH, eds., Refashioning Pop Music in Asia: Cosmopolitan flows, political tempos and aesthetic industries RoutledgeCurzon. 173-182
  • TAYLOR, J.E., 2003. Rethinking History. 7(2), 235-241
  • TAYLOR, J.E., 2003. Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. 15(2), 45-74
  • TAYLOR, J.E., 2003. 'Rome wasn't built in a day': Zuoying and the discourse of civilisation. In: CHRISTINA NEDER AND INES SUSANNE SCHILLING, ed., Transformation! Innovation?: Perspectives on Taiwan Culture Harrassowitz Verlag. 29-44
  • TAYLOR, J.E., 2002. Social History. 27(2), 125-142
  • TAYLOR, J.E., 2001. East Asian History. 21, 143-164

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