AUTHORS
Ratu Selvi Agnesia
A young female theater researcher active in Jakarta.
Glecy Cruz ATIENZA
A Professor at the College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City.
AU Sow Yee
A guest writer for the online magazine No Man’s Land; Co-founder of Kuala Lumpur’s Rumah Attap Library and Collective.
BAEK Dae-hyun
A producer and an actor for the works of SHIIM.
Richard BARBER
A theater worker and independent scholar working as the co-director of Free Theatre in Melbourne, Australia and advisor to the Makhampom Theatre Group in Thailand.
Assane Alberto CASSIMO
A coordinator and founding member of Associação Teatro em Casa.
CHUNG Chiao
A playwright, theater director, poet, and the artistic director of Assignment Theatre.
Dindon W.S.
The Director of Teater Kubur.
Muhammad FEBRIANSYAH
A lecturer at School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang.
HAN Jia-ling
A history and rural education scholar and activist.
HONG Seung-yi
Currently working at Theater BAKK.
Hsiao-Chuan HSIA
A Professor at the Graduate Institute for Social Transformation Studies, Shih Hsin University.
KUO Liang-ting
An adjunct lecturer at the Chinese Department of National Chung Cheng University.
LEE Show Shin
An artist from community people’s theater and a family care worker.
LIU Hsin-hung
The main participant of Yuquan Training since 2015.
Adaw Palaf LANGASAN
The founder and director of Langasan Theatre.
WANG Chu-yu
A contemporary artist, performance artist, and curator based in Mainland China.
WANG Mo-lin
A theater director, performance artist and cultural critic Robin WEICHERT (Tokyo).
Robin WEICHERT
A teacher of Hosei University, Tokyo.
WU Sih-Fong
A theater Critic, Associate editor of Performing Arts Forum (Macau).
ZHAO Chuana
A writer, theater maker and curator who creates alternative and socially engaged theater in China. Also, he is the founding member and mastermind of the theater collective Grass Stage since 2005.
EDITORS INTRODUCTION
Qi Li
Qi Li is a Ph.D. student in Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies in National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. She came to Taiwan out of curiosity, then got a journey full of adventures. Her ongoing projects focus on life stories of the small theater practitioners, the technologies of mobility and governance in contemporary conditions, and the political-economic transitions on both sides of the Taiwan Strait over the last half-century. She writes articles and reviews for independent media and research institutions based in different countries. She was the coordinator of “Where the People Are…Workshop on People’s Theater in Inter-Asian Societies” in December 2018.
Zikri Rahman
Zikri Rahman has consistently embarked on collaborations with educational and cultural activist groups in various socio-political projects through Buku Jalanan, a rhizomatic network of street library movement he co-founded in the year 2011. Operating as a loose cultural and knowledge workers movements, it focuses on decentralizing the modes of knowledge production. Other than that, he is also affiliated with Pusat Sejarah Rakyat, independent archival research and documentation focusing on Malaysia and Singapore’s people’s history. With LiteraCity, he initiated a literary and cultural mapping project in the city of Kuala Lumpur. Currently pursuing his postgraduate studies in Social Research and Cultural Studies in Taiwan, Zikri is also a writer, independent researcher, translator, and podcaster for various ephemeral platforms.
Joyce C.H. Liu
Joyce C.H. Liu received her Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature in 1984 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Currently, Dr. Liu is the Director of the International Center for Cultural Studies, and a full-time professor at the International Program in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and the Director at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Her research focuses on geopolitics, biopolitics, border politics, internal coloniality, unequal citizens, epistemic decolonization, and artistic interventions. She has published six books, 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, and chapters and coedited nine books. She is leading two ongoing joint research projects: “Conflict, Justice, Decolonization: Critical Inter-Asia Cultural Studies,” awarded by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan (2018-2022), and “Migration, Logistics, and Unequal Citizens in the Global Context” (2019-2022), awarded by CHCI-Mellon Foundation.
TRANSLATORS
BAEK Jin-sol
A student of master programme of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan.
Kris CHI
M.A. of National Central University Department of English.
Victor FUNG Tsz Ching
A freelance translator graduated from Department of English, City University of Hong Kong.
LEONG Jie Yu
A Master’s degree in English Language Studies from the University of Malaya.
LIANG Chun-wen
Graduated from Department of English, National Central University.
LO Chun Yat, Timothy
M.A. of the Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Ting University.
Shu-Chuan LIN
M.A. of National Chung Hsing University Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and freelance translator.
IP Po Yee
M.A. of the Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
Jonathan S. PARHUSIP
Ph.D. of the Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
Kin TONG
A translator and researcher on psychoanalysis theory.