Jih-Fei Cheng
Jih-Fei Cheng is Associate Professor in the Department of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Scripps College. He holds a B.A. in Communication with minors in Chinese Studies and General/World Literatures from the University of California, San Diego; an M.A. in Asian American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles; and a Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity, with a certificate in Visual Studies, from the University of Southern California. From 2010-2013, Cheng served as the managing editor for American Quarterly, the official publication of the American Studies Association. Previously, he worked in HIV/AIDS social services, managed a university cultural center, has been involved in arts and media production and curation, and has participated as a board or steering committee member for various queer and trans of color community-based organizations in Los Angeles and New York City, such as the Fabulous Independent Educated Radicals for Community Empowerment! (FIERCE!). His organizing work has addressed the issues of queer and transgender health, immigration, gentrification and youth homelessness, police harassment and brutality, and prison abolition.
Cheng’s research examines the intersections between science, media, surveillance, and social movements. His first book project, tentatively titled "Materialist Virology," historicizes the field of virology within the contexts of Euro-American empire and racial capitalism. A co-edited volume with Alexandra Juhasz and Nishant Shahani, AIDS and the Distribution of Crises, was published in spring 2020 (Duke UP). He is also at work on a second project that engages how the colonial histories of virology and genetics have structured global industries, white supremacy across the Atlantic and the Americas, and Han Chinese ethnosupremacy across Asia Pacific.
Cheng’s research examines the intersections between science, media, surveillance, and social movements. His first book project, tentatively titled "Materialist Virology," historicizes the field of virology within the contexts of Euro-American empire and racial capitalism. A co-edited volume with Alexandra Juhasz and Nishant Shahani, AIDS and the Distribution of Crises, was published in spring 2020 (Duke UP). He is also at work on a second project that engages how the colonial histories of virology and genetics have structured global industries, white supremacy across the Atlantic and the Americas, and Han Chinese ethnosupremacy across Asia Pacific.
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https://items.ssrc.org/covid-19-and-the-social-sciences/disaster-studies/praxes-of-care-the-politics-of-intravention-in-the-age-of-covid-19/
URL: https://newbloommag.net/2021/07/05/society-sinophone-palestine/
Drawing upon both meanings, this chapter observes how films such as Michael Mann’s The Last of the Mohicans (USA, 1992) and Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto (USA, 2006), among others, form a globalized style of Hollywood Indigenous epic filmmaking that involve shared cinematic techniques—namely animal hunting and human headhunting that presumably introduce audiences to the pre-modern landscape and primeval battles over territory—which I refer to here as “choreographies of flesh.” The feature-length version of the critically acclaimed Taiwanese box office hit, Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011) is a Hollywood-style historical epic film that portrays the 1930 Wushe Rebellion by Seediq Aborigines against Japanese colonizers. The film opens with Seediq peoples engaged in a wild boar hunt followed by human beheadings. By analyzing how these choreographies of flesh prompt audience members’ visceral reactions, this chapter demonstrates how Hollywood-style Indigenous historical epics point to toxic industrialization as well as the anxieties and failures to incorporate Indigenous peoples into transatlantic and transpacific geopolitical formations. They prompt our “gut reactions” to reckon with Native survivance (Vizenor 1999) against Han-Chinese and white settler nation-states.
To make the most of the expansive possibilities of writing asynchronously, collectively, and responsively, the original authors include editors’ comments, their own growing and interactive dialogue, earlier fragments made by Ev-Ent-Anglement project participants, and the later words of scholar Jih-Fei Cheng about his experiences of the Ev-Ent-Anglement. Kim Knight (peer reviewer, enters through WordPress peer-review blog). The essay does not have an argument but attempts to make an intervention. It asks us to think about how we define digital humanities, how we capture or archive the ephemera of the rich collaboration that we so often emphasize, and what it means to perform scholarship.
Working with Jennifer Brier, the JAH brought together nine scholars to discuss how the history of HIV/AIDS intersects with the history of the United States. Participants engaged in a far-ranging conversation that interweaves histories of sexuality, race, gender, medicine, social activism, and media, and explores how HIV/AIDS has been addressed, and ignored, in historical scholarship of the late twentieth century. As the first feature-length piece dedicated to the history of HIV/AIDS published by the Journal, this “Interchange” is able to delve deeply into many critical aspects of the history of HIV/AIDS but misses many others. The JAH and all the contributors hope this piece sparks and sustains new historical research across the many axes of the field of U.S. history. The JAH is indebted to all of the participants for sharing their thoughts on this subject.
JONATHAN BELL is a professor of U.S. history at University College London. He is the author of The Liberal State on Trial: The Cold War and American Politics in the Truman Years (2004) and California Crucible: The Forging of Modern American Liberalism (2012). His current project, “Unhealthy Bodies: Health Care and the Rights Revolutions since the Sixties,” examines civil rights activism and health care politics to explore the sexual and gender dynamics of U.S. health care. Readers may contact Bell at [email protected].
DARIUS BOST is an assistant professor of sexuality studies at San Francisco State University. He is the author of the forthcoming Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence. He is the coeditor of a special issue in the Black Scholar titled “Black Masculinities and the Matter of Vulnerability.” Readers may contact Bost at [email protected].
JENNIFER BRIER is an associate professor of history and gender and women's studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis (2009) and the curator of “Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture,” a traveling exhibition for the National Library of Medicine. She currently directs a public history project on HIV/AIDS called “I'm Still Surviving: A Women's History of HIV/AIDS in the United States.” Brier was the guest editor for this Interchange. Readers may contact Brier at [email protected].
JULIO CAPÓ JR. is an assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940 (2017). He is currently writing a book that places the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre in the long history of violence, erasure, and displacement of queer Latina/o/x communites. Readers may contact Capó at [email protected].
JIH-FEI CHENG is an assistant professor of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Scripps College. He is working on a book tentatively titled “AIDS and Its Afterlives: Race, Gender, and the Queer Radical Imagination.” He worked in HIV/AIDS social services and was a board member of Fabulous Independent Educated Radicals for Community Empowerment. Readers may contact Cheng at [email protected].
DANIEL M. FOX is the president emeritus of the Milbank Memorial Fund. He is the author of Power and Illness: The Failure and Future of American Health Policy (1993) and The Convergence of Science and Governance: Research, Health Policy, and American States (2010), the coeditor of AIDS: The Making of a Chronic Disease (1992). He has served in three federal agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services. Readers may contact Fox at [email protected].
CHRISTINA HANHARDT is an associate professor of American studies at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence (2013). Her current project looks at the historical relationship between sexuality-based social movements and antipoverty movements, and examines in particular how a wide range of activists have taken up, and shaped, the strategy of “harm reduction” most associated with public health advocacy. Readers may contact Hanhardt at [email protected].
EMILY K. HOBSON is an assistant professor of history and in the program in Gender, Race, and Identity at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left (2016) and is currently working on a second book that explores the connection between AIDS activism and prison radicalism in the 1980s and 1990s. She is on the governing board of the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender History. Readers may contact Hobson at [email protected].
DAN ROYLES is an assistant professor of history at Florida International University. He is the author of the forthcoming book To Make the Wounded Whole: The Political Culture of African American AIDS Activism. He is currently working on an oral history of African American AIDS activists and is building an online archive of materials relating to HIV/AIDS in black communities. He is the book review editor for the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender History newsletter and is on the editorial board for OutHistory. Readers may contact Royles at [email protected].
https://items.ssrc.org/covid-19-and-the-social-sciences/disaster-studies/praxes-of-care-the-politics-of-intravention-in-the-age-of-covid-19/
URL: https://newbloommag.net/2021/07/05/society-sinophone-palestine/
Drawing upon both meanings, this chapter observes how films such as Michael Mann’s The Last of the Mohicans (USA, 1992) and Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto (USA, 2006), among others, form a globalized style of Hollywood Indigenous epic filmmaking that involve shared cinematic techniques—namely animal hunting and human headhunting that presumably introduce audiences to the pre-modern landscape and primeval battles over territory—which I refer to here as “choreographies of flesh.” The feature-length version of the critically acclaimed Taiwanese box office hit, Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011) is a Hollywood-style historical epic film that portrays the 1930 Wushe Rebellion by Seediq Aborigines against Japanese colonizers. The film opens with Seediq peoples engaged in a wild boar hunt followed by human beheadings. By analyzing how these choreographies of flesh prompt audience members’ visceral reactions, this chapter demonstrates how Hollywood-style Indigenous historical epics point to toxic industrialization as well as the anxieties and failures to incorporate Indigenous peoples into transatlantic and transpacific geopolitical formations. They prompt our “gut reactions” to reckon with Native survivance (Vizenor 1999) against Han-Chinese and white settler nation-states.
To make the most of the expansive possibilities of writing asynchronously, collectively, and responsively, the original authors include editors’ comments, their own growing and interactive dialogue, earlier fragments made by Ev-Ent-Anglement project participants, and the later words of scholar Jih-Fei Cheng about his experiences of the Ev-Ent-Anglement. Kim Knight (peer reviewer, enters through WordPress peer-review blog). The essay does not have an argument but attempts to make an intervention. It asks us to think about how we define digital humanities, how we capture or archive the ephemera of the rich collaboration that we so often emphasize, and what it means to perform scholarship.
Working with Jennifer Brier, the JAH brought together nine scholars to discuss how the history of HIV/AIDS intersects with the history of the United States. Participants engaged in a far-ranging conversation that interweaves histories of sexuality, race, gender, medicine, social activism, and media, and explores how HIV/AIDS has been addressed, and ignored, in historical scholarship of the late twentieth century. As the first feature-length piece dedicated to the history of HIV/AIDS published by the Journal, this “Interchange” is able to delve deeply into many critical aspects of the history of HIV/AIDS but misses many others. The JAH and all the contributors hope this piece sparks and sustains new historical research across the many axes of the field of U.S. history. The JAH is indebted to all of the participants for sharing their thoughts on this subject.
JONATHAN BELL is a professor of U.S. history at University College London. He is the author of The Liberal State on Trial: The Cold War and American Politics in the Truman Years (2004) and California Crucible: The Forging of Modern American Liberalism (2012). His current project, “Unhealthy Bodies: Health Care and the Rights Revolutions since the Sixties,” examines civil rights activism and health care politics to explore the sexual and gender dynamics of U.S. health care. Readers may contact Bell at [email protected].
DARIUS BOST is an assistant professor of sexuality studies at San Francisco State University. He is the author of the forthcoming Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence. He is the coeditor of a special issue in the Black Scholar titled “Black Masculinities and the Matter of Vulnerability.” Readers may contact Bost at [email protected].
JENNIFER BRIER is an associate professor of history and gender and women's studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis (2009) and the curator of “Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture,” a traveling exhibition for the National Library of Medicine. She currently directs a public history project on HIV/AIDS called “I'm Still Surviving: A Women's History of HIV/AIDS in the United States.” Brier was the guest editor for this Interchange. Readers may contact Brier at [email protected].
JULIO CAPÓ JR. is an assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940 (2017). He is currently writing a book that places the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre in the long history of violence, erasure, and displacement of queer Latina/o/x communites. Readers may contact Capó at [email protected].
JIH-FEI CHENG is an assistant professor of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Scripps College. He is working on a book tentatively titled “AIDS and Its Afterlives: Race, Gender, and the Queer Radical Imagination.” He worked in HIV/AIDS social services and was a board member of Fabulous Independent Educated Radicals for Community Empowerment. Readers may contact Cheng at [email protected].
DANIEL M. FOX is the president emeritus of the Milbank Memorial Fund. He is the author of Power and Illness: The Failure and Future of American Health Policy (1993) and The Convergence of Science and Governance: Research, Health Policy, and American States (2010), the coeditor of AIDS: The Making of a Chronic Disease (1992). He has served in three federal agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services. Readers may contact Fox at [email protected].
CHRISTINA HANHARDT is an associate professor of American studies at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence (2013). Her current project looks at the historical relationship between sexuality-based social movements and antipoverty movements, and examines in particular how a wide range of activists have taken up, and shaped, the strategy of “harm reduction” most associated with public health advocacy. Readers may contact Hanhardt at [email protected].
EMILY K. HOBSON is an assistant professor of history and in the program in Gender, Race, and Identity at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left (2016) and is currently working on a second book that explores the connection between AIDS activism and prison radicalism in the 1980s and 1990s. She is on the governing board of the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender History. Readers may contact Hobson at [email protected].
DAN ROYLES is an assistant professor of history at Florida International University. He is the author of the forthcoming book To Make the Wounded Whole: The Political Culture of African American AIDS Activism. He is currently working on an oral history of African American AIDS activists and is building an online archive of materials relating to HIV/AIDS in black communities. He is the book review editor for the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender History newsletter and is on the editorial board for OutHistory. Readers may contact Royles at [email protected].
Jih-Fei Cheng, assistant professor in the Department of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Scripps College, introduced the COMPULSIVE PRACTICE screening at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles on December 4, 2016. This is a version of his introduction.