# Beyond categories: intimacy, agency, and identity in Taiwan

Beyond categories: intimacy, agency, and identity in Taiwan at SOAS University of London, Friday 30 October 2026, 11:00.

- Venue: SOAS University of London
- Get tickets: https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-talk-haunted-modernities-gender-memory-and-placemaking-postindustrial-taiwan
- Go to page: https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/beyond-categories-intimacy-agency-and-identity-taiwan

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An online seminar about intimacy, agency, and identity in contemporary Taiwan, held at SOAS University of London. Hoi Yan Yau, an anthropologist at National Taiwan Normal University, presents her book 'Sex, Culture, and Identity in Taiwan', a person-centred ethnographic study of how individuals negotiate gender, sexuality, kinship, and identity. Through life stories, it examines how social structures such as patrilineal kinship and gender norms shape people's possibilities without fully determining their actions, arguing that agency is best understood as navigation within constraint.

## Dates

- Friday 30 October 11:00 — SOAS University of London

Written by a model, sources: [soas.ac.uk](https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/beyond-categories-intimacy-agency-and-identity-taiwan)

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