Presumably, unlike other “disciplines”, cultural studies has moved away from a pretentious universalism to position its intellectual practice as “locally” and historically grounded. The same is true for teaching cultural studies. My presentation is a critical reflection on my own experiences of teaching cultural studies in Taiwan since 1989. In the early part of my teaching career, contemporary “critical theories” were the main ingredients of the curriculum. This un-reflexive nature of teaching, like of the teachers did in that era, was soon challenged by the necessary desire to move on. Two sets of materials for teaching have then begun to emerge since mid 1990s. The first was to introduce students to the “cultural studies” writings produced in Taiwan (and sometimes including other Chinese speaking contexts); the intent was that they could inherit problematic formulated in their teachers’ generation, and then through critiques to move forward in their own work. The second was to fill in a vacuum in the larger contexts of teaching cultural studies in Taiwan, by bringing in cultural studies writings produced in Asia, so that the referent points of can be multiplied beyond the obsession with the West. International seminars were organized for students to directly encounter the authors they read. This attempt has been a rather lonely task. Because of the new institutional demand in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, to produce degree programs on both undergraduate and graduate level, the attempt at the next step is to incorporate the curriculum mentioned above with a re-searching for intellectual thoughts and sources for cultural studies back to the early 20 century onward. In the end, teaching cultural studies in Taiwan would look like an intellectual history of critical sources, composed of 1) early Chinese cultural criticism writings such as Lu Xun, continued by writers such as Chen Yingzhen, 2) the popular cultural criticism of the 1980s and 1990s produced in Taiwan, 3) Birmingham centered cultural studies tradition and critical theory, 4) contemporary cultural studies writings produced in different Chinese speaking contexts, 5) Inter-Asia Cultural Studies writings

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