Han-Hsiu Chen

Associate Professor

Department of Cultural Vocation Development

Contact

hhc@ntut.edu.tw

Rm 710, General Studies Building

02-27712171 #5607

Heritage preservation and interpretation, memory and landscape, museum and local development, tobacco heritage preservation

Education

PhD in Human Geography, Aberystwyth University, UK

Biography

Han-Hsiu is an associate professor of Department of Cultural Vocation Development, National Taipei University of Technology in Taiwan. Han-Hsiu got her master in Museum Studies at University of Leicester, and BA in Indigenous Culture in Taiwan.

Han-Hsiu is interested in heritage-related issues, especially how heritage relate to memory, historical interpretation, museum, and community empowerment. Han-Hsiu’s doctoral research focused on-going heritage practices of tobacco agriculture in Taiwan. Han-Hsiu’s current research examined the meaning and value transformation of tobacco heritage, and published numerous academic articles and book chapters on international tobacco heritage practice. Han-Hsiu is also involved in community-led local heritage initiatives in Taipei City, particularly those relating to cultural and historical landscape in Songshan District where she lives.

Journal

・Chen, H. H. 2018. The production and meaning transition of tobacco and Japanese immigrant heritage in Fonglin Township. Taiwan wen hien: report of historico-geographical studies of Taiwan, V69(4), 35-63 (Published in Chinese, forthcoming in December)

・Chen, H. H. 2016. Following the Transfer of Technology: The Embedded Social Connections in Taiwan’s Tobacco Settlements. Advances in Historical Studies, 5, 102-111

Conference

・ Chen, H. H. 2014, Historical geography of tobacco industry in Taiwan: a materiality approach, in the section of Geographies of Agriculture and Labor, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 8-12, Tampa, USA.

・ Chen, H. H. 2013, Reexamining agricultural landscape heritage: tobacco landscape commemoration in eastern Taiwan, Heritage Scapes: 14th Annual Heritage Seminar, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, April 12, University of Cambridge, UK.

Projects