Butong wenhuajian yingshi xianghuzhuanghua he buduan duihuade

This paper is about stories and story-telling, and the way stories produce how we understand Taiwan. It gestures towards some big themes in accordance with the performative expectations of a keynote, with the goal of trying to say something how, by being engaged in the task of producing scholarship about Taiwan, we are negotiating what could be called the geo-politics of story-telling.