My dissertation seeks to answer how the male-centric narratives within the cultural memory of modern Taiwan can be reshaped through a feminist point of view. It examines women’s subjectivities, identities, images, and bodies represented through the restored paintings and films produced in twentieth-century Taiwan. The primary goal of my dissertation is to investigate how women’s subjectivities, as exemplified by female artists and conservators, and the restored images of women in the paintings and films have endured, confronted, and subverted the imperial, patriarchal, and heterosexual gazes prevalent throughout Taiwan’s modern history. By studying the roles of women in the creation, preservation, and performance of the examined artworks, the dissertation argues that their subjectivities and the restored images serve as a counter-memory to the dominant male narratives that have shaped the cultural memory of modern Taiwan. They work to reclaim and reinstate the marginalized and long-forgotten narratives of women, providing a platform for further discussions on gender variance and gender diversity represented through the arts.Another main objective of my dissertation is to bring attention to the often-underestimated significance of art restoration as a critical material intervention for accessing and reconstructing a nation’s cultural memory. Recognizing that the formation of a society or nation's cultural memory and its associated policies are inevitably influenced by public gender discourse, my research explores the intersection and interconnectedness of cultural memory studies and feminist studies, examining how these two fields interact with and impact each other. By employing art restoration in contemporary Taiwan as a medium, my research probes into the question of how focusing on twentieth-century Taiwan can shed light on the convergence of these two theoretical disciplines, which have traditionally been perceived as more Western-centric. To analyze the results and processes of painting and film restoration, I adopt the cultural memory discourse developed by German scholars Aleida and Jan Assmann. This approach allows for an exploration of how the practices and outcomes of art restoration serve to deconstruct and reshape the masculinist cultural memory of modern Taiwan, which has predominantly revolved around narratives centered on "his" stories.