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Evelyn Shih
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Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota; Chinese & Korean cultural studies; media, ecologies, phenomenology; comedy. Sound and noise, signifying everything.
A little bunny sleeping next to a large canvas at the MOMA
October 18, 2025 at 4:11 AM
This Kandinsky was one of my favorite finds at the Guggenheim today. Like of course this is how K does a landscape!
October 18, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Honorable mentions (all from Divine Egypt exhibit). Includes one Hippo goddess of pregnancy.
October 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Triptych of breastfeeding women and their babies at the Met
October 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Looking for suggestions: I was going to show *Hero* (2022, S. Korea) for a class session on musicals, powerful affect, and national(ist) narrative, but my DVD order is delayed. Any suggestions for alternates? Could be a film from anywhere. Must be a musical.
October 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Wow I just watched Kpop Demon Hunters with a bunch of college juniors and seniors and…they were not only blah, but they also know less about it than I do. Do I just have very specific students who are incredibly sheltered from the reaches of the honmoon??
September 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
My daughter’s latest. She calls it “The Breakfast.”
August 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Four more views
July 8, 2025 at 2:30 AM
July 8, 2025 at 2:29 AM
It is warm, breezy, and beautiful right now in Boulder
July 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Connoisseurs of both Mexican and Taiwanese cuisine please let me know I’m not crazy: does the consommé for quesabirria taste eerily similar to the broth for beef noodle soup 牛肉麵???
May 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Looking for readings on how a color cathode-ray tube works--specifically what kind of color it could produce compared to color film projection and printed pigment. Any suggestions from film or TV scholars? #filmsky

Picture is a frame from a restored 1970s TV documentary.
April 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Female 007 from 1964 Taiwanese spy film. She was the “top spy” and much more competent than the guy in the suit who thought he was carrying out the mission.
April 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
My student drew my portrait for a thank you card! This might be the most adorable present I’ve ever received from work. It actually does look like me and my teaching wardrobe lol
March 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I used a Taiyupian to talk about the aesthetics of shot composition yesterday. My students got it right away and found their own shots in two additional film sequences that I showed them.

I don't think it's said enough: commercial film can be (conventionally) beautiful.
March 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A real research question from someone who truly does not know fashion terminology: is this outfit somehow associated with playing pool? And how would we refer to these arm covers?
Kudos to anyone who can guess who this gnome is!
February 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
A Korean comic about inflation from 1972
February 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
@dieworkwear.bsky.social Will you post this thread here, also? It’s the inauguration take we were all waiting for.
January 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
January 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Some sleeping ones spotted at San Diego zoo
January 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Just realized that I forgot to post this when it came out! I wrote Chapter 9 - Sound Legacies: Post-synchronised Sound and Echoes of the Taiyupian in Pre-Dolby Taiwan Cinema
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-taiwane...
December 10, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Denver Art museum really stepped up recently. Pics from my visits in the past few weeks
November 16, 2024 at 7:00 AM
I think this means I was still pretty late to the party? lol
September 19, 2024 at 3:15 AM
Okay this is maybe for very few people...but apparently "chipmunk voice" was considered "Donald Duck voice" in 1960s Taiwan, when there was a whole LP featuring Donald Duck doing Taiwanese folk songs?? audio.nmth.gov.tw/audio/zh-TW/...
October 18, 2023 at 6:32 PM