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History in the Making – Medicalizing Animals as Food and Drugs in Chinese Asia (Dr. Liz P.Y. Chee, Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

This talk will discuss my current book project, tentatively titled Medicalizing Animals as Food and Drugs in Chinese Asia. As the title indicates, this project focuses on animals and their consumption at the nexus of  medicine and medicalized food in ‘Chinese Asia’ (the PRC, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and my native Singapore), from the 1970s until now.  I […]

History in the Making – Dormitories, Strikes and Beauty Pageants: Gendered Labor Regimes in Taiwan and Mexico’s Export Industries (Dr. Gabriel Antonio Solis, Fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Faculty of Arts Conference Room, 4.36, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, University of Hong Kong

In the early 1970s, global manufacturers rushed to Taiwan and the U.S.-Mexico Border to take advantage of new export-industrial zones. Mexico’s maquiladora industry and Taiwan’s Export Processing Zones promised transnational firms “an investor’s paradise,” with duty-free manufacturing zones, cheap utilities, and most importantly, access to local “low-cost” women workers as a readily available labor source.  Yet while […]