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I am a specialist in the anthropology of Chinese religious practices, civil society, and political culture in Taiwan and the Chinese-speaking world. My research interests include cognitive warfare, cultural conflicts, democracy, identity politics, and nationalism. I initiated the theme “Taiwan in Comparative Perspective,” which contextualizes modernization, globalization, and glocalization through interdisciplinary studies of social science issues, using Taiwan as a comparative framework.

Introduction: What’s in the Name “Chinese”? Translocation and Hua-logy

2025-02-19 施芳瓏 Academic Publications

An illustration of the complexity of Chineseness arises from a meme derived from the quirk of the phrase “我是華人不是中國人” (Woshi Huaren bushi Zhongguoren) becoming “I am Chinese, not Chinese” when translated in Google. The meme, which had gone viral, exposes a problem implicit in English vocabulary which lacks additional English words for translating two different Chinese terms and concepts. The meme dwells on the apparent confusion of the Google translation: “I am Chinese, not Chinese.”