Title Contemporary Taiwanese cultural nationalism / A-chin Hsiau

Published London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2005

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; [7] Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 7. Contents Front Cover; Contemporary TaiwaneseCultural Nationalism; Copyright Page; Contents; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Note on the romanization of Taiwanese and Chinese words; 1. Introduction; The people, language, and history: an outline; Contemporary scholarship on nationalism and the study of Taiwanese nationalism; Domimated ethnic groups, nationalism, and humanist intellectuals; Cultural nationalism and political nationalism; The politics of cultural uniqueness; Modernization ideology and cultural nationalism; The question of dissemination channels; The organization of the book 2. Japanese colonialism and literary and linguistic reforms in colonial TaiwanJapanese colonialism and Taiwanese resistance in the 1920s; Japanese linguistic assimilationism; Literary and linguistic reforms in colonial Taiwan; Conclusion; 3. Postwar linguistic problems, literary development, and the Debate on Hsiang-t'u Literature; Early Mainlander-Taiwanese contact and the linguistic problem; Early KMT rule and the 2-28 Incident; The 1947-49 literary discussion; KMT rule in the 1950s and 1960s Combat literature, KMT ideology, and the development of modernist literature in the 1950s and 1960sThe Debate on Hsiang-t'u Literature; Conclusion; 4. Crafting a national literature; Native Taiwanese writers in the 1950s; The early history of Taiwan Literature and Li Poetry Magazine; KMT rule and the rising of the Taiwanese opposition movement in the 1970s; The Debate on Taiwanese Consciousness and hsiang-t'u Literature; Ch'en Ying-Chen, Yeh Shih-T'ao, and hsiang-t'u Literature: "pro-China" versus "pro-Taiwan"; "De-Sinocizing" Taiwanese literature: the first half of the 1980s Political changes since 1986Crafting a national culture: the second half of the 1980s and after; Crafting a national literature; Conclusion; 5. Grafiting a national language; The official language policy and its consequences; Crafting a national language; The Hoklo writing system and Taiwanese nationalism; Hoklo literature and Taiwanese literature redefined: bringing language in; Conclusion; 6. Crafting a national history; KMT rule and the pro-China view of history; The development of the pro-Taiwan view of history and Taiwanese nationalism; Conclusion; 7. Conclusion Taiwanese nationalism as an historical "latecomer"Taiwanese cultural nationalism reconsidered; Bibliography; Index Summary Drawing on a wide range of Chinese historical and contemporary texts, Contemporary Taiwanese Cultural Nationalism addresses diverse subjects including nationalist literature; language ideology; the crafting of a national history; the impact of Japanese colonialism and the increasingly strained relationship between China and Taiwan. This book is essential reading for all scholars of the history, culture and politics of Taiwan Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-211) and index Subject Chinese literature -- Taiwan -- History and criticism Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Nationalism and literature -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century Language and culture -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century Chinese language -- Dialects -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century Chinese language -- Dialects Chinese literature Language and culture Nationalism and literature Cultuur. Nationalisme. Taiwan Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 0203402642 9780203402641

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