Publications

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

• Liang, Peilin. Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater (Routledge, 2020)

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

• Liang, Peilin. “Toward a Somatic Ergonomics: Bodymind Self-Care in Community-Engaged Theatre.” Theatre Topics 31, no. 3 (2021): 249–64.
• Liang, Peilin. “Towards a Collaborative Ergonomics: From Strangers to Symbiotic Community through Boundary Traversal in Performance.” Theatre Research International 45, no. 3 (2020): 245–63.
• Liang, Peilin. "Towards Docuvention: The Multiplicities of Documentary Practices in Practice as Research (PaR) Applied Theatre." Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (2019): 1-16. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZSRQ9R5QSVMGG9WHVB9T/full?target=10.1080/13569783.2019.1643709
• Liang, Peilin. 'Towards a Probody Aesthetics: Ageing and Occupationally Damaged Bodies in Performance.' Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (Dec 2018): 1-14.
• Liang, Peilin. 'A Home on the Island (I and II): Inter-body Performance as a Method to Move Beyond Resentment,' Theatre Topics ( March 2018) 28.1: 27-41. https://doi.org/10.1353/tt.2018.0005
• Liang, Peilin. 'From Grotowski to La Vie Bohème: Aesthetics, Performance Pedagogy, and the Taiwanese Body after U Theatre,' Contemporary Theatre Revi (2017) 27:2, 216-230. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6wDhKMDEnen4nQMDw3Za/full
• Liang, Peilin. 'Interweaving Ethics and Aesthetics: Marriage Migrants and Theatre Making in the Asian Transnational Space.' Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 17.3 (Sep 2016): 334-356. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HjqqChdpVPNPmDWXS9Ys/full
• Liang, Peilin. 'Dreaming Muscular Prowess through Falling: censorship, puppets, and mimicry.' Performance Research 18.4 (Aug 2013): 124-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2013.814345
• Liang, Peilin. ‘Localizing People’s Theatre in East Asia: Performing Hakka Women and Pear-growers on Taiwan’s Fault Line.’ Research in Drama Education. 17.3 (Aug 2012): 377-396. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2012.694032
• Liang, Peilin. ‘Re-articulating Cultural Hybridity: The Golden Bough Performance Society and The Lady Knight-errant of Taiwan—Peh-sio-lan.’ Theatre Research International, 36.1 (2011): 20-32. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883310000696

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

• “Becoming Giants: Towards Oceania Through Mastery of Bodily Skills and Techniques” in Routledge Companion to Theatre and Young People. Routledge: 2022.
• “Caring at a Distance and in Proximity: Performance as/is Care in the Transnational Space” in Routledge Companion to Asian Transnationalism. Routledge: 2022.
• Liang, Peilin. 'Joyously Traversing Jianghu: Golden Bough Performance Society’s Hotchpotch Aestheticism and Taiwanese Humour (幸福遊走江湖：金枝演社的拼貼美學與臺式幽默)' in A New Vision for Research on Taiwan (臺灣研究新視界：青年學者觀點). Taipei: Rye Field (麥田出版), 2012, 297-320.

TRANSLATION

• Liang, Peilin. 'The Awful Literary Scene of Taiwan.' Translation in The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014, 51-54.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• "Somatic Ergonomics: The Reconfiguration of Bodily Space" Body IQ Somatics Festival, Berlin, Germany, November 15-17, 2019.
• “Towards an Ergonomics of Collaboration: The (non)elasticity of theatre in an age of globalization” Performance Studies international #24, University of Calgary, July 4–8, 2019.
• “Aesthetics for the Body: From Work to Work-care through Performance” Annual International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts, Athens Institute for Education and Research, June 11–14, 2018
• 'A Home on the Island: Performance as Research in Applied Theatre' SDEA Theatre Arts Conference, 29 June-1 July 2017.
• 'Disrupting the Female ‘Overflow’: Marriage Migration, Affects, and Embodied Knowledge' PSi #23 University of Hamburg, 8-11 June 2017.
• 'Transformance: Historiography through Indigenous Historicity' International Federation for Theatre Research Conference. University of Stockholm, 13-17 June 2016.
• 'Intimate Strangers: Marriage Migrants and Intercultural Theatre in the Age of Minor Transnationalism' Singapore Drama Educators Theatre Arts Conference, 25-28 June 2015.
• 'Sightlines from the South: Performance, Sub-empire and Female Minor Transnationalism' Taiwan: The View from the South. Australian Center on China in the World, The Australian National University, 6-9 January, 2015
• 'East Asian Cultural Palimpsest in Training: Conceptualizing the Taiwanese Body through Performance Pedagogy' Performance Studies International Conference. Shanghai Theatre Academy, 4-8 July 2014.
• 'Compressed Space, Conflated Time, Embodied Materiality: East Asian Minor Transnationalism in Performance' Paper presented at Performance Studies International Conference. Stanford University, 26-30 June 2013.
• ‘Puppets, Colonization, and the Cold War: Tradition and Innovation in the Palm Puppetry of Taiwan’ Crossroads 2012.  Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, UNESCO. 2-6 July 2012.
• ‘Joyously Traversing Jianghu: The Golden Bough Performance Society’s Hotchpotch Aestheticism and Taiwanese Humor’ Taiwan Literature and Culture: the Ninth International Junior Scholars' Conference on Sinology. Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature, National Taiwan University,  9-10 July 2010.
• ‘Localizing Brecht—Performing Hakka Women and Pear-growers on Taiwan’s Fault Line’ Brecht in/and Asia: Thirteenth Symposium of International Brecht Society. Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, 19-23 May 2010.
• 'A Tradition of Cultural Hybridity in Performance under Colonial Censorship—The Golden Bough Performance Society’ at Silent Voices, International Federation for Theatre Research Conference, University of Lisbon, 14-17 July 2009.

PAPERS FOR SEMINAR, PUBLIC TALK, LECTURE

• 'Applied Theatre' Inter-varsity Theatre Forum hosted by NUS Stage National University of Singapore, 4-5 Jan, 2014
• 'Rehearsing Cultural Diversity: multiculturalism in the contemporary theatre of Taiwan' Department of English Language and Literature at National University of Singapore, 29 March, 2012.
• ‘A Popular Culture Born of Theatrical Healing: Golden Bough Performance Society and Its Four Plays’ Department of Religion and Department of Modern Languages and Literature, Trinity University, San Antonio, September 2011.
• ‘The Drama of the Capital Jingju’, Department of Asian Studies,
University of Texas at Austin, April 2010.
• ‘Decolonizing the Stage: The Contemporary Indigenous Theatre of Taiwan’, invited workshop presentation at the Intercollegiate Taiwanese-American Student Association Conference, University of Texas at Austin, March 2010.
• ‘The Splendor of Cultural Hybridity on the Contemporary Stage of Taiwan’, National Taipei University, December 2009.
• ‘The Indigenous Theatre of Taiwan’ Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin, November 2009.
• ‘Performing Hakka Women on Taiwan’s Central Fault Line’ Taiwan Women Spring Lecture Series,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, March 2008.
• ‘From Kitchen to the Stage—
Performing Hakka Women on Taiwan’s Central Fault Line’, Taiwan Women Winter Retreat, Totowa, December 2007.
• ‘Weaving a Tale of Many Voices—The Making of Multiculturalism in the Contemporary Theatre of Taiwan’, Department of Drama Creation and Application, National University of Tainan, November 2006.
• ‘Cultural Creation and Recreation—Making Multiculturalism in the Contemporary Theatre of Taiwan’, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, October 2006.