Taiwan on Screen and Page: Screening of Formosa Betrayed

January 30, 4:30pm - 7:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Center for Korean Studies Auditorium Add to Calendar

Taiwan on Screen and the Page: Screening of Formosa Betrayed and Conversation with Writer/Producer Will Tiao and Novelist Shawna Yang Ryan, moderated by "Asia in Review" host Bill Sharp.

What are the challenges of depicting Taiwan’s complicated history in fictional form? How do artists of different genres depict the brutalities of history?

Tensions between Taiwan and China are on the rise with the island nation’s selection of a pro-independence president, Tsai Ing-wen. Two Taiwanese Americans, Shawna Yang Ryan and Will Tiao, will discuss the situation in an upcoming event — Taiwan on Screen and the Page: Screening of Formosa Betrayed and a Conversation with Writer/Producer Will Tiao and Novelist Shawna Yang Ryan — co-sponsored by the Asian Studies department, The Academy for Creative Media, and the Creative Writing Program.

Shawna Yang Ryan teaches in UHM Creative Writing Program and is the author of Green Island, a historical novel set during Taiwan’s White Terror, a period of martial law that lasted from 1949 to 1987.

Will Tiao is a Fulbright Scholarship recipient and former Presidential Management Fellow in the Bill Clinton administration and international economist under the George W. Bush administration. He is also actor/writer/producer of the feature film Formosa Betrayed, based on the true events surrounding Taiwanese democracy and independence activists in the 1980s, starring James Van Der Beek (Dawson’s Creek) and co-starring Tiao.


Ticket Information
FREE

Event Sponsor
Asian Studies, Academy for Creative Media, Creative Writing Program, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Shawna Ryan, (808) 956-3071, slryan@hawaii.edu

Share by email