Bert Scruggs
Associate Professor, East Asian Studies
School of Humanities
School of Humanities
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
ORCiD: 0000-0003-2719-9059
University of California, Irvine
Department of East Asian Studies
Mail Code: 6000
Irvine, CA 92697
Department of East Asian Studies
Mail Code: 6000
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Twentieth Century Chinese Fiction
Research Abstract
My current research focuses on the uses of the countryside and hinterlands in twentieth century Chinese fiction.
Using language, literature, film, and translation as well as cultural, gendered, and spatial identification, I explored fiction written in Chinese and Japanese by Taiwanese authors in my first monograph, Translingual Narration: Colonial and Postcolonial Taiwanese Fiction and Film. In a nutshell, I examined previously overlooked or censored texts to explain the complexity of memory, postcolonial identity, and post-colonial translation in Taiwan during the twentieth century.
Using language, literature, film, and translation as well as cultural, gendered, and spatial identification, I explored fiction written in Chinese and Japanese by Taiwanese authors in my first monograph, Translingual Narration: Colonial and Postcolonial Taiwanese Fiction and Film. In a nutshell, I examined previously overlooked or censored texts to explain the complexity of memory, postcolonial identity, and post-colonial translation in Taiwan during the twentieth century.
Publications
Monographs
Translingual Narration: Colonial and Postcolonial Taiwanese Fiction and Film. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2015.
Selected Journal Articles
“The Crises of Representation in Taiwan in Ruins and Ground Zero.” National Taiwan University Studies in Taiwan Literature. No. 24 (2020) 83-112.
“Landscapes and Sublime Memories: Revisiting Liang Xiaosheng's ‘A Land of Wonder and Mystery.’” Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 8.4 (2014) 513-531.
Selected Translations
Wang, Zhenhe (王禎和). “The Mouse Serves a Guest Tea” (老鼠捧茶請人客). Taiwan Literature English Translation Series, 42 (2018).
Translingual Narration: Colonial and Postcolonial Taiwanese Fiction and Film. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2015.
Selected Journal Articles
“The Crises of Representation in Taiwan in Ruins and Ground Zero.” National Taiwan University Studies in Taiwan Literature. No. 24 (2020) 83-112.
“Landscapes and Sublime Memories: Revisiting Liang Xiaosheng's ‘A Land of Wonder and Mystery.’” Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 8.4 (2014) 513-531.
Selected Translations
Wang, Zhenhe (王禎和). “The Mouse Serves a Guest Tea” (老鼠捧茶請人客). Taiwan Literature English Translation Series, 42 (2018).
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Last updated
08/03/2026
08/03/2026