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  • Graduate Institute of Philosophy
  • National Central University
  • Chungli, Taiwan320

  • Ph.D. Department of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
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A. Books
  2017 Modernity: A Cultural Studies and Applied Philosophy Approach. Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU.
2015 Re-Cognizing China, edited by Ning Yin-Bin.  Taishe Academic Books series.  Published by Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies.
2013 New Moralism, edited by NING Yin-Bin. Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU.
2012 People in Trouble: Depression, Emotion Management and the Dark Side of Modernity. Co-author: Josephine Ho.  Taishe Academic Books series.  Published by Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies.
2011 Changing Sexual Landscape: The China Turn, edited by Yin-Bin Ning. Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU, 2011.
2009 An Ethical Inquiry Into Prostitution. Taishe Academic Books series. Published by Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies.
2008 Taking Pornography Seriously, edited by NING Yin-Bin and Josephine HO. Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU.
2007 Sexual Ethic Without Morality: Sexual Ethics and Sex Critique. Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU.
2007 Lectures on Sex/Gender Studies in Taiwan.  Vols. I and II. Collaborative work with Josephine (Chuen-juei) HO and Naifei DING. Beijing: Jiuzhou Press. This is a renewed edition of the 2005 book (Introduction to Politics of Sexuality), with a new chapter by NING Yin-Bin. (in Simplified Chinese)
2005 Introduction to Politics of Sexuality: Lectures on Sex Rights Movement in Taiwan. Collaborative work with Josephine (Chuen-juei) HO and Naifei DING. Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU. (in Simplified Chinese)
2004 Sex Work and Modernity. Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU. (in Simplified Chinese)
2004 Body Politics and Media Criticism. written and edited by NING Yin-Bin. Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU.
1991 The New Oppositional Movement in Taiwan (published under the pen name Robocop). Taipei: Tangshan bookstore.
1990 Why They Didn't Want to Tell You--Introduction to Sexual Politics. Co-author with Josephine HO. Taipei: Fang Zhi Publishers.


B. Journal Articles
‧ “Forgetting Homosexuality, Revisiting Nanse（男色）”, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, 111 (December 2018): 165-229.
‧ “Pinkwashing, Homonationalism and the Politics of Colored People Knowledge-Production”, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, 111 (December 2018):231-248.
‧ “Universal, Multiple and Contending Modernities”, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, 111 (December 2018):278-286. Also published in RenJian Thought Review (Mainland China Edition), 10 (November, 2019): 340-347.
‧ “Contemporary Sexual Ideologies in Taiwan: Perspectives and Vicissitudes”, RenJian Thought Review (Taiwan edition), 17 (2018 summer): 63-77.
‧ “Same-Sex Marriage Controversy in Taiwan: The Radical, Liberal and Conservative Perspectives”, RenJian Thought Review (Taiwan edition), 17 (2018 summer): 78-91.
‧ “Taiwanese Construction of Enjo-Kosai: The Rise of Child Protection Law and its Interest Groups”, Enjo-Kosai in Taiwan: The Criminalization of Internet Sexual Messages, written and edited by Josephine Chuen-Juei HO. Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU, 2018. 3-33.
‧ “All Modernities are Civilized/Civilizational Modernities”, Preface for Modernity: A Cultural Studies and Applied Philosophy Approach.  Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU, 2017. v-xvii.
‧ “Cultural Criticism and Newspaper Literary Pages in Taiwan: Cultural Politics as 'Real' Politics and Cultural Studies as Applied Philosophy”, Modernity: A Cultural Studies and Applied Philosophy Approach.  Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU, 2017.  87-134.
‧ “Local Philosophy of Science as Applied Philosophy: The Theme of Knowledge/power and General Education”, Modernity: A Cultural Studies and Applied Philosophy Approach.  Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU, 2017.  247-259.
‧ “Same-Sex Marriage Is Not Gay Marriage: Its Implication and Aftermath”, Applied Ethics Review, 62 (2017): 5-35.
‧ “Civilization, Empire and World-System: A Review of ZHAO Tingyang’s The Tianxia System”, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, 105 (December 2016): 221-231.
‧  “China / The Left”, RenJian Thought Review (Mainland China Edition), 5 (April, 2016): 253-269.
‧ “Before China as Theory”, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, 102 (March 2016): 227-254.
‧ “China as Theory: Re-cognizing China by ‘China Pie’”, Open Time, 265 (January, 2016): 95-117.
‧ “China as Theory: Re-cognizing China by ‘China Pie’”, What Kind of the Conception of China We Need, ZHAO Gang, et al. eds.  Taipei, RenJian Publisher, 2015. 193-234.
‧  “China as Theory: Re-cognizing China by ‘China Pie’”, Re-Cognizing China, edited by NING Yin-Bin Taipei, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, 2015. 9-54.
‧ “(Sexual) Harassment and Civilized Modernity”, Gender/Sexuality and Local Insurgence.  Edited by WONG Wai Ching Angela and CHOI Po King Dora.  HK: Commercial Press, 2015. 5-18. Reprinted in Gender/Sexuality: The first 20 years, edited by Josephine Chung-Ruei HO and NING Yin-Bin. Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU, 2016. 137-151.
‧ “Introduction to the Special Issue on Same-Sex Marriage”, Applied Ethics Review 58 (April 2015): 1-12.
‧ “Equality and Surplus Recognition in Same-Sex Marriage”, Applied Ethics Review 58 (April 2015): 57-68.
‧ “The Constitutional Rights of Sexual Minorities: An Argument about Taiwan Rail Public Sex Event”, Ya-Fei HSU and NING Yin-Bin.  Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies 95 (June 2014) : 249-262.
‧ “Against ‘Citizenship’, ‘Progress’ and ‘Taiwan’: 20 years after ‘people's democracy advocacy’”, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies 94 (March 2014) : 157-179.
‧ “Post-Unification, Civil Society and Civilized Modernity”, RenJian Thought Review (Taiwan edition) 4 (2013) : 32-36.
‧ “Modern Progressivism and Its Conceit: Neo-Moralism and Civil Society”, Neo-Moralism, edited by NING Yin-Bin. Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU, 2013. 1-11.
‧ “Gender Right, Capability Approach and the Politics of Transsexuality”, SOCIETAS: A Journal for Philosophical Study of Public Affairs 43 (December 2012): 37-80.
‧ “Modern Drug-Use and Body Management: an analysis of Taiwan's Viagra discourse”, Cultural Studies in the Chinese World, edited by WANG Xiao-Ming, Shanghai: Shanghai book store, 2012. 23-50.  Reprinted in NING Yin-Bin, Modernity 55-84. (This is a revised article of NING Yin-Bin, “On Viagra”1999)
‧ “The Political Stand of Cultural Studies”, co-author with Josephine Chuen-Ruei HO, Cultural Studies in the Chinese World, edited by WANG Xiao-Ming, Shanghai: Shanghai book store, 2012. 51-69. Reprinted in NING Yin-Bin, Modernity 87-106.
‧ “Against the ‘Queer’ Current?”, Queer, Affect, Politics: Selected Essays by Heather Love.  Edited by LIU Ren-Peng et. al. New Taipei City: Shenlou Press, 2012.  309-324.
‧ “Revisiting People’s Democracy: Twenty-year After”, RenJian Thought Review (Taiwan edition) 2 (2012) : 115-124.
‧ “Social Construction of Sex Trade and the Reformism of Prostitution”, Applied Ethics Review. 53 (October 2012): 131-148.  Reprinted in NING Yin-Bin, Modernity, 225-243.
‧ “Reflections on Sexuality Liberation Movement in Taiwan: Ten-Year After”,  The Personal is Historical: Gender/Sexuality Studies/Movements in Greater China.  Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU, 2012.  365-393.
‧ “Family Politics of Animal Protection Movement: From Moral Progressivism to Competing Modernities”, RenJian Thought Review (Taiwan edition). 1 (2012): 282-301.
‧ “Critique of Feminist View in the Revision of Rape Law of Taiwan”, The Taiwan Law Review 205 (June 2012): 263-273.
‧ “The Socio-Cultural Exclusion and the Regulation of Sexuality in Taiwan”, Liverpool Law Review 33.1 (2012): 67-76. (in English)
‧ “The Starting Point Theory: A Non-Traditional Essentialist view of (trans)gender”, Sexuality Research in China 6 (2011): 277-281.
‧ “Philosophical Reflections on the Amending Sexual Assault Law Concerning Young Children in Taiwan”, Chinese (Sex)uality/Gender-Age Machine, edited by CHIU Man Chung.  HongKong: Red Corporation Limited, 2012.  242-258.
‧ “The Sexual Love of Child from a Psychoanalytical Point of View”, Growing up Horny.  Edited and Published by Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association, 2011. 74-92.
‧ “Against the ‘Queer’ Current ?”, Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies. 13 (2011): 324-337.
‧ “The Extreme Protectionist Prejudice: Technocratic Government through Child Welfare in the New Regulatory State of Taiwan”, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies 83 (Aug 2011): 279-293.
‧ “(Taking) A Break from Feminism”, Feminism in China 12 (July 2011): 305-312.
‧ “After the China Turn in Gender/Sexuality Research”, Forward to Changing Sexual Landscape: The China Turn, edited by NING Yin-Bin. Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU, 2011. iii-viii.
‧ “Sameness Theory: The Research Program of Gender/Sexuality Minority”, Changing Sexual Landscape: The China Turn, edited by NING Yin-Bin. Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU, 2011. 45-62.
‧ “‘The Social Sex’ as Sexuality”, Connections: Trans-Local exchanges in Chinese Gender/Sexuality, edited by Josephine HO.  Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU, 2010. 3-13.
‧ “On Translating ‘The Right to Sexual Privacy’ ”, Chinese Sexual Rights Research, 2 (March, 2010) 32-36.
‧ “The China Turn in Gender/Sexuality Study”, Preface to Connections: Trans-Local exchanges in Chinese Gender/Sexuality, edited by Josephine HO.   Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU, 2010. iii-vi.
‧ “Human Dog: The Cause and Enigma of SM”,  Introduction to The Army Dog, Taipei: Basic Books, 2010. 4-21. Revised as “Human Dog: SM in Light of Sameness Theory” in Changing Sexual Landscape: The China Turn, edited by NING Yin-Bin. 189-203.
‧ “Re-Naming Sexual Perverts”, (Co-author: Josephine HO) International Chinese Sexology Journal, ICSJ.  9. 3 (2009): 13-14.  (Published by International Association of Chinese Medical Specialists & Psychologists. New York).
‧ “How Would Chinese Be (Alter-Native) Chinese Again?”, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies 74 (June 2009) : 223-239.
‧ “Child Abuse, Child Welfare Law and the Politics of Child Sexual Abuse”, Child Sexual Assault: Listen and Respect.  Edited by CHIU Man Chung.  HongKong: Red Corporation Limited, 2009.  156-195. Revised and Republished as “Child Welfare Law, and The Politics of Child (Sexual) Abuse”, in Connections: Trans-Local exchanges in Chinese Gender/Sexuality, edited by Josephine HO.  Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU, 2010.  205-234.
‧ “The Politics of Civilizing Body: Pubic Hair Monologue or Pubic Hair Going Public”, Chinese Sex Rights Research，1（2009）：102-104. (Published by WACS: World Association of Chinese Sexologists)
‧ “SM and SM porn: From an Ethical Point of View”, Chinese Sexuality Research, 1.2 (2008): 74-83.  Reprinted in Taking Pornography Seriously, edited by NING Yin-Bin and Josephine HO.  Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU: 2007. 265-286. (ISSN:19348949).
‧ “Compound Society”, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies 71 (Sept 2008) : 275-279.
‧ “Taking Pornography Seriously”, Taking Pornography Seriously, edited by NING Yin-Bin and Josephine HO.  Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU: 2007. 3-33.
‧ “Cannibals and Their Animal Friends: From Animal Love to Animal Right”, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies 68 (Dec 2007): 345-359.
‧ “Sex Work and Modernity”, Lectures on Gender/sexuality in Taiwan, Vol. 2, Josephine HO, et. al. Bejing: JiuZhou Publisher, 2007.  196-232.  Reprinted in Modernity, NING Yin-Bin, 137-172.
‧ “Social Construction or Destruction of Homosexuals?—Conservative or Revolutionary Constructionism of the Reality of Homosexuality”, SOCIETAS: A Journal for Philosophical Study of Public Affairs 20 (March 2007): 1-55.
‧ “On Mutuality of Sex, and Reciprocity of Sex Trade”, SOCIETAS: A Journal for Philosophical Study of Public Affairs 18 (Sept 2006): 151-174. Abstract
‧ “Anti-censorship Campaign and a Nascent Social Movement in Taiwan”, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies 60 (Dec 2005): 179- 196.
‧ “The Politics of Death in Modernity”, Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies. 1 (Sept 2005): 1-45. Reprinted in Modernity, NING Yin-Bin, 3-54.Abstract
‧ “Exclusive Civil Society: Citizenship, Governance and Culture Wars”,Rethinking and Recasting Citizenship: Social Exclusion and Marginality in Chinese Societies. May TAM, KU Hok-bun, and Travis KONG, eds.  Hong Kong: Centre for Social Policy Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2005.  3-26.
‧ “Sex Work and Modernity (Second Treatise): A Goffmanian Interpretive Analysis”, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies 55 (Sept. 2004): 141-224. Abstract
‧ “Sex Work and Modernity (First Treatise) : Modern Self and Its Conditions”,  Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies 53 (March 2004): 85-143. Abstract
‧ “Transgender Aesthetics: Late Modernity and the Floating Beauties”, Transgender.  Ed. Josephine HO.  Published by the Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU, 2003. 283-312.
‧ “Is Sex Work really ‘Work’? -- Marx’s Theory of Commodity and the Social Constructionism of Sex Work”, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies 46 (June 2002): 87-139.  Republished in Interventions: Taishe Reader in Intellectual Thought. Vol. 2.  Edited by Jinn-Yuh HSU and CHEN Kuan-Hsing.  Taipei: Tongsan Book, 2008. 99-144. Also reprinted in Modernity, NING Yin-Bin, 173-226. Abstract
‧ “Sexual Ethics and Beyond”, Philosophy Magazine 33 (Aug 2000): 62-75.  Revised and republished in Sexual Ethic Without Morality, NING Yin-Bin, 55-68.
‧ “Towards a Multiculturalist Sexuality Education—Education as Sexuality Education, and Sexuality Education as Education”,  (Co-author: Josephine HO)  From Queer Space to Education Space.  Ed. Josephine Ho.  Taipei: Rye Field Publishing Co., 2000.  373-398. Abstract
‧ “Modernity of Harassment and the Politics of Citizenship: Sexual Emancipation of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violation”, Working Papers in Gender / Sexuality Studies, 5&6 (1999): 238-272.
‧ “From Torture, Maltreat to Mistreat Children: The Politics of the Translation of Child Abuse and Child Sexual Abuse”, Working Papers in Gender / Sexuality Studies, 5&6 (June 1999): 273-282.
‧ “The Consensus Construction and the Legislation of Sexual Harassment: A Response to Dr. M.L. Ng”,  Working Papers in Gender / Sexuality Studies, 5&6 (June 1999): 293-315.
‧ “The Sexual Morality of Politician and the Rationalization of the State”, Working Papers in Gender / Sexuality Studies, 5&6 (June 1999): 444-454.
‧ “Ethnic Politics and Prostitute Politics: Response to Prof. Zhi-Yu Shi”, Working Papers in Gender / Sexuality Studies, 5&6 (June 1999): 455-458.
‧ “On Viagra: Modern Drug-Use and Body Management”,  Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies.  33 (March 1999): 225-252. Abstract
‧ “Harding’s Feminist Standpoint Theory”,  NSC Studies on Philosophy 1993-1996.  Taipei: National Science Council and Sun Yat-Sen Institute for Social Sciences and Philosophy Academia Sinica, 1999.  261-296.  Revised and republished in Modernity, NING Yin-Bin, 323-349.
‧ “Notes Towards An Intellectual History of Sexual Emancipation: Erotic Politics, Erotic Minority, Erotic Stratification”, Working Papers in Gender/Sexuality Studies, 3&4 (September 1998): 179-234. Abstrac
‧ "What Is Queer Politics?", Working Papers in Gender/Sexuality Studies, 3&4 (September 1998): 32-46.
‧ “The Sexuality and Work in Sex Work”, Working Papers in Gender/Sexuality Studies, 1&2 (January 1998): 240-263.
‧ “The Community of Lesbian/Gay and Sex worker: Imaginary and Real Solidarity”, Working Papers in Gender/Sexuality Studies, 1&2 (January 1998): 264-310.  Reprinted in Sex Work: The Prostitutes' Rights Perspective. Edited by Josephine HO. Taipei: Chuliu Book Company, 2001. 281-325.  Revised and republished in Critical Sexual Politics, edited by Wei-cheng CHU, Taishe Reader in Gender/Sexuality and Queer, 2008. 341-379.
‧ “From Sexual Chauvinism to Erotic Chauvinism: A Critique of Contemporary Taiwan’s Mainstream Feminism”,  Working Papers in Gender/Sexuality Studies, 1&2 (January 1998): 178-192. Reprinted in Sex Work: The Prostitutes' Rights Perspective. Edited by Josephine HO. Taipei: Chuliu Book Company, 2001. 189-203.
‧ “Idiosyncratic Sexuality and The Social Construction of Sexuality: Towards A Theory of Sexual Emancipation”,  Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, 26 (June 1997): 67-128.  Also Published in Visionary Essays in Sexuality/Gender Studies: Proceedings of the First Annual Conference On Sexuality Education, Sexology, Trans/Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies. Vols. One.  Ed. Josephine HO.  Taipei: Meta Media Publishers, 1997. 109-190.  Republished in Critical Sexual Politics, edited by Wei-cheng CHU, Taishe Reader in Gender/Sexuality and Queer, 2008. 35-86. Abstract
‧ “On the Conditions of the Rise of Applied Ethics in U.S.: Some Controversies concerning Applied Ethics and Their Implications for the Study of Philosophy in the Third World”, Forth Conference of American Literature and Thought: The Philosophy Anthology. Eds. Zhi-Qing HE and Yu-Hong HONG, Taipei: Academia Sinica, 1995. 53-77.  Reprinted in Modernity, NING Yin-Bin, 297-322.
‧ “Althusser's Structuralist Model”, Humanities. 12 (June 1994): 131-143. Abstract
‧ “Localized Philosophy of Science as Applied Philosophy: Knowledge/Power and General Education”,  Con-temporary. 87 (July 1993): 108-121.  Reprinted in Modernity, NING Yin-Bin, 247-259.
‧ “Knowledge/Power: As a Theme of New Philosophy of Science”, Humanities. 11 (June 1993): 85-115. Reprinted in Modernity, NING Yin-Bin, 261-295.
‧ “Waiting for Another Fromm”, Con-temporary.  57 (Jan 1991): 92-106
‧ “Tillich, Bible Criticism and Hermeneutics: What is Theology”, Con-temporary.  31 (Nov 1988): 16-28.
‧ “The Future of a Philosophy”, Intellectual (New York).  4.2 (1988 winter): 14-17.
 
C. Conference Papers , Keynote Speech, Academic Forum
‧ “ModusVivendi and China's Unification”, The Second Cross-strait Conference on Humanities, organized by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, etc. Xiamen, October 19, 2019.
‧ “Sex work and modernity: a recap and reflection”, Keynote speech, Humanities Research Center Fall Conference 2019: The Future of the Humanities: The Gender/Sex Turn, Duke Kunshan University. Kunshan, September 20, 2019. (in English)
‧ “Critical reflection on the debate of philosophy of sex in the 1970's United States: Towards a new theory of Qinyu（情慾）” , Seventh International Conference of Chinese Sexuality Research, organized by Graduate Institute of Sociology of Sex of Renmin University and Center for sexual health and education at Medical University of Harbin.  Harbin, August 28-30, 2019.
‧ “A critique of the same-sex marriage in Taiwan”, Ninth Workshop for the theory and practice of the sociology of sex, organized by Graduate Institute of Sociology of Sex of Renmin University and Center for sexual health and education at Medical University of Harbin.  Harbin, August 24-27, 2019.
‧ “Critique of the progressivism of Taiwan's same-sex marriage” , The winding road of cultural studies, lecture series, Department of Cultural Studies, Shanghai University.  Shanghai, May 27, 2019.
‧ “‘Facts’of Pluralism”, Conference of Re-embarkment of Humanities: multi-disciplinary approach, organized by Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of Peking University, etc.  Beijing, December 1 and 2, 2018.
‧ “The Taiwanese construction of indigenous people”, A Cross-strait Conference on Re-cognizing Tradition, organized by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, etc. Xiamen, September 8, 2018.
‧ “Universal, Multiple and Contending Modernities”, Forum: Reflecting on our winding path of inquiry, organized by Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of Peking University.  Beijing, June 26, 2018.
‧ “Tradition and Individualization: keywords in the same-sex marriage controversy”, Keynote speech, The Sixth International Conference of Chinese Sexuality Research, organized by Graduate Institute of Sociology of Sex of Renmin University and Center for sexual health and education at Medical University of Harbin.  Harbin, July 3-5, 2017.
‧ “Gender/sexuality studies in Taiwan: The future of a western leftist illusion”, The Eighth workshop of the theory and methodology of sociology of sex, organized by Graduate Institute of Sociology of Sex of Renmin University and Center for sexual health and education at Medical University of Harbin.  Harbin, June 28-July 2, 2017.
‧ “Forgetting Homosexuality, Revisiting Nanse (男色)”, Theory and movement of gender/sexuality—Taiwan experience Forum, Organized by Graduate Institute of Sociology of Sex of Renmin University and Center for the Study of Sexualities, National Central University.  Beijing, August 26-27, 2016.
‧ “Forgetting Homosexuality, Revisiting Nanse (男色)”, Seminar for the resident scholars, Zhejiang University Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences.  Hangzhou, May 23, 2017.
‧ “Civilization, Empire and World-System: A Review of Zhao Tingyang’s The Tianxia System ” , Conference on The Tianxia System in East-Asia Reality.  Jinzhe, Shanghai, July 1-2, 2016.
‧ “People in trouble: emotion, reason and society”, East China Normal University.  Shanghai, March 29, 2016.
‧ “China / The Left”, The Second Re-cognizing China Conference, International Master’s Program in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, University System of Taiwan (IACS-UST).  Chungli, October 31, 2015.
‧ “Before China as Theory”, Taishe 100 Forum. Annual meeting of Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, Taipei, October 3, 2015.
‧ “Chinese Early Modern NanSe (男色) Identity in Late Ming’s NanSe Novels”, Keynote Speech.  The Fifth International Conference of Chinese Sexuality Research, Renmin University, Beijing, July 4-6, 2015.
‧ “Contemporary Taiwan's gender/sexuality vicissitude: historical and political context”, The seventh workshop of the theory and methodology of sociology of sex. Renmin University, Beijing, July 3, 2015.
‧ “Chinese Early Modern Nan-Se (男色) Identity in Late Ming’s Nan-Se Novels”.  Gender/Sexuality Studies in Taiwan: The First-Twenty Years.  Organized by Center for the Study of Sexualities, National Central University. Chungli, May 16-17, 2015.
‧ “Re-Cognizing China” .  Re-Cognizing China Conference.  International Program in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, held at Central University.  Chungli, November 2, 2014.
‧ “The evolution of nativism of Hong Kong”, Asia movement of thought: Renjian Thought Forum. Beijing, Octorber 24-27, 2014.
‧ “Equality and Surplus Recognition in Same-Sex Marriage”, The sixth annual meeting of WACS (World Association of Chinese Sexologists). Hangzhou, July 29-30, 2014.
‧ “The State and Governance”, The Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Macau.  Macau, June 5, 2014.
‧ “Neo-Liberalism and Neo-Moralism.”  Neo-moralism Under Neoliberalism International Conference.  Lingnan University of Hong Kong, May 24-25, 2014.
‧ “Publicness, Privacy, Sexual Harassment”, Gender and science project outcome presentation. Organized by National Science Foundation, Chengchi University. Taipei, April 19, 2014.
‧ “Back to the basic of gender study”, The Eighth International Super-Slim Conference on Sexual Politics. Organized by the Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU, Chungli, October 6, 2013.
‧ “Against ‘Citizenship’, ‘Progress’ and ‘Taiwan’: 20 years after ‘people's democracy advocacy’”, Keynote speech, Annual meeting of Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies. Shishin University, Taipei, October 5, 2013.
‧ “Creative Economy in the Rise of Asia”(first author Josephine HO) , Second International Culture Industry Summit, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, September 8, 2013.
‧ “Back to the basic of gender study”, The fifth workshop of the theory and methodology of sociology of sex. Organized by Graduate Institute of Sociology of Sex of Renmin University, Beijing, June 20, 2013.
‧ “Post-Unification, Civil Society and Civilized Modernity”, Asia Thought Forum, Shanghai, October 12-16, 2012.
‧ “Neo-Moralism: Moral Progressivism and Moral Conservativism”, Keynote speech.  2012 The Fourth Cross-Strait Conference on Gender/Sexuality Deployment.  Organized by Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU.  Chungli, October 6, 2012.
‧ “Sameness Theory: The Research Program of Gender/Sexuality Minority”, Forum of gender study in inter-&multi-disciplinary research. Organized by Woman Center of Social Science Institute of Zhejiang. Hangzhou, Septermber 6, 2012.
‧ “What is public media”, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, September 8, 2012.
‧ “Same sex marriage”, Forum of woman's movement, gay movement and social movement.  Organized Sunflower LGBT-Hangzhou.  Hangzhou, September 9, 2012.
‧ “Transgender Aesthetics”, Gender/sexuality perspective Forum, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, September 10, 2012.
‧ “What is public media”, Forum on body, sexuality and media.  Communication University of Zhejiang, Hangzhou, September 11, 2012.
‧ “Gender/sexuality education: multiple guide and multiple text”, Forum on Taiwan's gender/sexuality education. Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, September 11, 2012.
‧ “The origin of the divide system: The revisionist world history”, retreat meeting Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, August 12-13, 2012.
‧ “Child Welfare Law and the Politics of Child (Sexual) Abuse in Taiwan” and “Queer Politics in Taiwan”, University of London, July 9, 2012.
‧ “Child Welfare Law and the Politics of Child (Sexual) Abuse in Taiwan”, Heidelberg University, Germany, July 11, 2012.
‧ “Politics of Gender/Sexuality in Taiwan: An Introduction”, MainzUniversity at Germersheim, Germany, July 12, 2012.
‧ “The family politics in animal protection”, Department of Cultural Studies, Shanghai University, June 20, 2012.
‧ “N/A”, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hongkong, February 13, 2012.
‧ “Recent controversy of amending sexual assault law concerning young children in Taiwan.”  Forum on Children’s Law in Greater China, Organized by Trans-disciplines Legal Theory and Police Research Center, Hong Kong Shue Yan University. Hong Kong, June 25, 2011.
‧ “Gender Rights, Gendering Capability and Politics of Transsexualism.” Power and Pluralism: Third International Conference of Chinese Sexuality Study.  Organized by Institute for Research on Sexuality and Gender, Renmin University of China. Beijing, June 21-23, 2011.
‧ “Recent controversy of amending sexual assault law concerning young children in Taiwan.” The third workshop of the theory and methodology of sociology of sex. Organized by Graduate Institute of Sociology of Sex of Renmin University, Beijing, June 16, 2011.
‧ “(Sexual) Harassment and Civilized Modernity.” Gender/Sexual Conference: Gender/Sexuality Politics in Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, April 15-17, 2011.
‧ “The China Turn in Gender/Sexuality Study”, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, March 4, 2011.
‧ “Sameness Theory: The Research Program of Gender/Sexuality Minority”, 2010 The Second Cross-Strait Conference on Gender/Sexuality Deployment.  Organized by Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU. Chungli, September 11-12, 2010.
‧ “Gendering as a Central Human Capability and the Politics of Transsexualism.”  The International Conference on Queer Diaspora, Organized by Taiwan University, June 11-12, 2010.
‧ “From women study to gender/sexuality study”, Women Study Center at Wuhan University.  Wuhan, November 8, 2010.
‧ “Gender/sexuality and media criticism: From Panjinlian to Kangxilaile” (with Naifei DING, Chun-de LIN, Josephine HO), School of Journalism, Wuhan University, Wuhan, November 9, 2010.
‧ “Gender/sexuality in Taiwan: Feminism, sex work, homosexual, transgender” (with Naifei DING, Chun-de LIN, Josephine HO), School of Life Science, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, November 10, 2010.
‧ “‘The social sex’ as Sexuality”, keynote speech, Dialogue between humanities and medicine science of sex: Annual conference of sexology association of Wuhan city, Wuhan, November 11, 2010.
‧ “Public Sex, Privacy and Sexual Harassment: Modernity and Gender/sexuality Legislation.”  2010 Cultural Studies Association Conference. Organized by Cultural Studies Association, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, January 9-10, 2010.
‧ “The Social Construction of Commercial Sex Trade and the Reformist Agenda of Prostitution.”  Governing Sex Trade: Law and Public Policy Experts Round Table Conference.   Organized by Women and Family Study Center of the Academy of Social Science of Zhejiang Province, undertaken by Cross-Strait Gender Study and Education Center of Xiamen University.  Xiamen, Fujian, November, 28-29, 2010.
‧ “The Social Conditions of the Cultural Production of New Asian Masculinity.”  Conference on the Role of Male in Promoting Gender Equity.  Organized by Ford Foundation and Szechuan Women Study Institute.  Chengdu, China, November 20-22, 2009.
‧ “Taiwan’s Child Welfare Law and its Politics.”  2009 Cross-Strait Conference on Gender/Sexuality Deployment.  Organized by Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU.  Chungli, December 5-6, 2009
‧ “Child Abuse and its Politics.”  ‘Sex and Social Development’: Second International Conference of Chinese Sexuality Study.  Organized by Institute for Research on Sexuality and Gender, Renmin University of China, Beijing, June 18-20, 2009.
‧ “Enjokosai: Social Construction and Exclusion.”  2009 Cultural Studies Association Conference, Organized by Cultural Studies Association, Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, January 3-4, 2009.
‧ “SM and SM porn: from an ethical point of view”, The first summit meeting of WACS (World Association of Chinese Sexologists), Shenzhen China, January 20-22, 2008.
‧ “The Socio-Cultural Exclusion in Taiwan.”(revised)  A Roundtable: Chinese Gender / Sexuality in 21st Century. Hong Kong Shue Yan University. Hong Kong, December 14-15, 2007.
‧ “The Political Stand of Cultural Studies”, with Josephine Chuen-Ruei HO, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Camp, Shanghai, June 19, 2007.
‧ “The Politics of the Definition of ‘Zoo’.”  Urban Flow-Rural Move: The Eighth Annual Conference of Cultural Studies Association.  Organized by Cultural Studies Association ROC, National Taiwan University, Taipei, January 6-7, 2007.
‧ “Emotions from Nowhere: Cognitivist Constructionism of Emotions and ‘Emotion Management’.”  2006 Annual Conference of Taiwan Philosophical Association. Organized by Taiwan Philosophical Association, National ChungCheng University and Nanhua University, Jiayi, November 18-19, 2006.
‧ “The Socio-Cultural Exclusion in Taiwan.”  2006 International Symposium on the Well-Being of Nations.  Organized by Graduate Institute of Philosophy, NCU. Chungli, November 5-6, 2006. (in English)
‧ “Cannibals and Their Animal Friends: From Animal Love to Animal Right (A Structuralist Analysis).”  , Multitude Lives/Bodies: The Seventh Annual Conference of Cultural Studies Association. Organized by Cultural Studies Association ROC., National Central University, Chungli, January 7-8, 2006.
‧ “Anti-censorship Campaign and a Nascent Social Movement in Taiwan”, Forum foreword.  Organized by Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies and Alliance for anti-censorship, Taipei, March 26, 2005.
‧ “Surrogate Citizen”, Workshop of Citizenship and Cultural Ascription.  Department of Sociology, TungHai University, Taichung, June 4, 2005.
‧ “Ten Years After: Theoretical Reflection on the Emancipation of Sexuality Movement in Taiwan”, Keynote Speech, Conference on Psychology and Ethics of Sex.  Tankang Unversity, Danshui, May 6, 2005.
‧ “Prostitution and the mutuality of sex”, Conference on sex industry and ethical thinking, Tankang Unversity, Danshui, May 21, 2004.
‧ “Exclusive Civil Society, Exclusive Public Sphere” (revised), Second Conference On Social Exclusion And Marginality In Chinese Societies: Rethinking & Recasting Citizenship.  Organized by Centre for Social Policy Studies, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, November 21-22, 2003.
‧ “Exclusive Civil Society: From anti-trafficking to social discipline—Women and children protection groups in Taiwan”(with Josephine HO), Conference for the 15th anniversary of Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, NTU, Taipei, October 4-5, 2003.
‧ “Sex work and modernity”(revised), Third annual conference on ethical thought and moral concerns, TanKang University, Danshui, May 3-4, 2002.
‧ “Sex work and modernity”, The Sixth Annual Conference On Sexuality Education, Sexology, Trans/Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies. Organized by the Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU, Chungli, September 15-16, 2001.
‧ “Women’s Rights Feminism vs. Sex Rights Feminism in Taiwan.”  Conference of Inter-Asia Cultural Nexus, National TsingHua University, Taipei (Yuehantang), 2001.
‧ “An Inquiry into Transgender Aesthetics: New sexy men and teenagers”, Alternative inquiry into female sexuality II: The Fourth International Super-Slim Conference on Sexual Politics. Organized by the Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU. November 26, 2000.
‧ “Sexual Harassment and Modernity.”  The Fifth Annual Conference On Sexuality Education, Sexology, Trans/Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies. Organized by the Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU, Chungli, April 22-23, 2000.
‧ “Death and Modernity.”  Spacing Chiliad: An International Symposium on Critical Space and Society.  Organized by the Department of Sociology of DongHai University, Taizhong, December 11-12, 1999.
‧ “The Theoretical Foundation of Age Liberation: Towards (Sexual) Emancipation of Children and Teenagers.” The Forth Annual Conference On Sexuality Education, Sexology, Trans/Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies. Organized by the Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU. Chungli, May 1-2, 1999.
‧ “The Sexual Morality of Politician and the Rationalization of the State”, Forum on Sex and State. Organized by Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, Taipei, October 24, 1998.
‧ “Notes Towards An Intellectual History of Sexual Emancipation: Erotic Politics, Erotic Minority, Erotic Stratification”, The second International Super-Slim Conference on Sexual Politics. Organized by the Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU, Chungli, October 3, 1998.
‧ “More arguments about sex work: Marx’s Theory of Commodity and the Social Constructionism of Sex Work”, The Third Annual Conference On Sexuality Education, Sexology, Trans/Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies. Organized by the Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU. Chungli, April 24-27, 1998.
‧ “Some arguments about sex work: Philosophical discussion on the right to sex work in U.S.”, The sixth conference on American literature and thought. Organized by Institute of American and European Studies, Academia Sinica, Nangang, March 6-7, 1998.
‧ “The Nominalism/Realism Controversy: The Case of Social Construction of Homosexuality.”  Southern Taiwanese Philosophical Studies Conference 1997.  Organized by the Graduate School of philosophy,  National ChungCheng University, Jiayi, September 13, 1997.
‧ “Towards a Multiculturalist Sexuality Education—Education as Sexuality Education, and Sexuality Education as Education”, co-author: Josephin HO, The International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Multicultural Education.  Organized by the Department of Education of Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, May 31, 1997.
‧ “Feminist Standpoint Theory”, The first National Science Foundation funded research projects of philosophy area outcome presentation.  Academia Sinica, Nangang, December 1996.
‧ “Idiosyncrasy: sexual difference, Freud and social construction”, The First Annual Conference On Sexuality Education, Sexology, Trans/Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies. Organized by the Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU. Chungli, June 29-30, 1996.
‧ “Sexual revolution and feminist sex liberation”, Conference on marriage institution and sex roles.  Organized by China Youth Corps, Taipei, 1994.
‧ “Duality of Capitalist Management: Marx, Braverman, Foucault.”  Third International Conference of Management and Philosophy.  Organized by the Graduate Institute of Management and Philosophy, NCU, Chungli, June 1994.
‧ “On the Conditions of the Rise of Applied Ethics in U.S.: Some controversies concerning applied ethics and their implications for the study of philosophy in the third world”, The fourth conference on American literature and thought. Organized by Institute of American and European Studies, Academia Sinica, Nangang, October 29, 1993.
‧ “Cultural Politics as ‘Real Politics’ and Cultural Studies as Applied Philosophy: Cultural Criticism in Taiwan.” International Symposium on Cultural Criticism.  Organized by The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, January 1993. (in English)
‧ “Local Philosophy of Science as Applied Philosophy: The Theme of Knowledge/power and General Education”, The conference on the role of philosophy in general education.  National Taiwan University, Taipei, April 16, 1993.
 

Award

Outstanding Research Award
2006 2008

National Science Council Research Award （terminated in 2001） 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000

Ph.D. Dissertation

A Post-Philosophical Essay on Knowledge/Power: Richard Rorty, Anti-Foundationalism and the Possibility of an Alternative Epistemology (Indiana University, Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation), 1992.

MA Thesis

Correspondence Rules (Dalhousie University, Unpublished Master Thesis), 1981.
 
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