2025 Chuan Lyu Lectures in Taiwan Studies
Why Study Taiwan?: Reflections from Puer Tea and Tea Art Culture
Professor YU Shuenn-Der, Academia Sinica
Tuesday, 29th April 2025
4.30pm in Rooms 8 & 9, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Taiwan and the Globalization of Puer Tea: The Role of the Taste of Aging (First Lecture)
Thursday, 1st May, 2025
2pm in Rooms 8 & 9, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Yu Shuenn-Der is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. from Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis. His research interests involve political economy, consumption and the anthropology of senses, and his field research has focused mostly on Taiwan and Tibetan Yunnan. He has edited a few volumes including 《體 物入微：物與身體感的研究》(Objects and Bodily Experience) (National Tsing Hua University Press, 2008), 《身體感的轉向》(The Shentigan Turn) (National Taiwan University Press, 2015) and Food Cultures and Technologies (Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica 2022). He is also the guest editor of a few journal special issues, including “Bodily Cultivation as a Mode of Learning” (Taiwan Journal of Anthropology 2009), “Stimulants and the World Around It” (Journal of Chinese Dietary Culture 2010), “In Memory of G. William Skinner” (Taiwan Journal of Anthropology 2010), “Food Authenticity and Transnationalism” (Taiwan Journal of Anthropology 2016), “Reinventing a Tradition: East Asian Tea Cultures in the Contemporary World” (Asian Journal of Social Science 2022), and “Sense-Making, Consumption and Identity” (Journal of Chinese Dietary Culture 2024).
His full profile can be found here: https://www.ioe.sinica.edu.tw/Content/Researcher
The annual Chuan Lyu Lectures in Taiwan Studies is generously funded by the Chuan Lyu Foundation.
The Chuan Lyu Foundation has been supporting an Annual Lecture Series in Taiwan Studies at Cambridge for over three decades. We are very grateful to the Foundation and its founder, Dr Lee Hwa-lin, for initiating the series and for its continuous support. Over the years, the lectures have attracted a very distinguished list of speakers. The Chuan Lyu lectures are held annually in May.
- 1991 Professor Stefan Feuchtwang (LSE)
- 1992 Professor Helen Siu (Yale University)
- 1993 Professor Charles Stafford (LSE)
- 1994 Professor TU Wei-ming (Harvard University)
- 1995 Professor Leo Ou-fan Lee (Harvard University)
- 1996 Professor SHIBA Yoshinobu (Osaka University)
- 1998 Dr David Landsborough IV
- 2000 Professor LIU Ts'ui-jung (National Taiwan University)
- 2001 Dr LEE Yuan-Tseh (Academia Sinica)
- 2002 Professor TU Cheng-sheng (Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica)
- 2003 Professor CHEN Jo-shui (National Taiwan University)
- 2004 Professor Steve Tsang (University of Oxford)
- 2005 Dr TSAI Ing-wen
- 2006 Lord Patten of Barnes (University of Oxford)
- 2007 Professor LUNG Ying-tai (National Tsing Hua University)
- 2008 Dr Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
- 2009 Professor CHOU Wan-yao (Academia Sinica)
- 2010 Professor YEN Chuang-yin (Academia Sinica)
- 2011 Professor LIAO Ping-hui (UC San Diego)
- 2012 Professor Julia Huang (National Tsing Hua University)
- 2013 Professor Chen Kuo-Tung (Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica)
- 2014 Professor Leonard Blussé (Leiden University)
- 2015 Dr LAI Chi-Wan
- 2016 Dr WU Rwei-Ren (Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica)
- 2017 Professor CHANG Hsun (Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica)
- 2018 Professor Joseph Allen (University of Minnesota)
- 2019 Professor Paul R. Katz (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica)
- 2020 Not held due to COVID pandemic
- 2021 Not held due to COVID pandemic
- 2022 Professor Philip Clart (University of Leipzig)
- 2023 Dr Stefania Travagnin (SOAS)
- 2024 Professor LIN Wei-ping (National Taiwan University)