This talk is free and will be conducted in Mandarin with English translation by Dr Hsu Fang-Tze

About the Talk

As a post-war baby boomer, Edward Yang was deeply influenced by the Western music of the 1960s: Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan. For the isolated youth on the small island, that music symbolised freedom and liberation. When placed in the movie about that period of time, it amplified Yang’s nostalgia for the urban sensibility. This talk will take a macro view from the era when Edward Yang grew up to the 1990s when Taiwanese pop music was at its peak, and explore the role of songs in Yang’s films.

About the Speaker

Chen Te-Cheng 陳德政 is a Taiwanese writer, DJ and mountaineer. He earned a BA in Radio & TV from National Chengchi University and an M.A. from the Department of Media Studies at The New School in New York. His music-related works include a documentary film on seminal underground band Loh Tsui Kweh Commune and essay collection All Tomorrow’s Parties, among others. In 2019, he joined the Taiwan Expedition Team to Pakistan’s K2 base camp, and his book on the experience, A White Summer, won the TIBE Book Prize for Non-Fiction. He hosts the podcast Pilgrimage: Ways To Nature. His latest book The Passage of Youth was published in February 2024.

This talk is part of the programme Retrospective: Edward Yang. For more events and screenings, please click here.

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