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This talk interrogates the nature of shared expressions of history, sentiments, and memory as it investigates the role of women workers in the shifting public narrative surrounding the Memorial Park for Women Laborers in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. As a heritage site, the Memorial Park for Women Laborers elucidates how “history” and “memory” are not simply about the past but part of a forward-looking process that emerges from the social, political, and economic needs of the present, legitimized and validated through its associations with the past.

A cultural anthropologist, Anru Lee's research focuses on the Asian Pacific region and issues of capitalism, modernity, gender and sexuality, and urban anthropology. She is the author of In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity: Labor and Gender Politics in Taiwan's Economic Restructuring and Haunted Modernities: Gender, Memory, and Placemaking in Postindustrial Taiwan and is co-editor of Women in the New Taiwan: Gender Roles and Gender Consciousness in a Changing Society, Why Taiwan? Anthropological Perspectives, and Brill Encyclopedia of Taiwan Studies (The Gender and Women's Studies Section). She is currently working on a book manuscript that investigates mass rapid transit systems as related to issues of technology, governance, and citizenship. She is professor of anthropology at the City University of New York.

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