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Author Yip, June Chun, 1962- author.

Title Envisioning Taiwan : fiction, cinema, and the nation in the cultural imaginary / June Yip
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (356 pages) : illustrations
Series Asia-Pacific: culture, politics, and society
Asia-Pacific.
Contents Confronting the other, defining a self : Hsiang-t'u literature and the emergence of a Taiwanese nationalism -- Toward the postmodern : Taiwanese new cinema and alternative visions of nation -- Remembering and forgetting, part I: history, memory, and the autobiographical impulse -- Remembering and forgetting, part II : Hou Hsiao-hsien's Taiwan trilogy -- Language and nationhood : culture as social contestation -- The country and the city : modernization and changing apprehensions of space and time -- Exile, displacement, and shifting identities : globalization and the frontiers of cultural hybridity -- Conclusion : from nation to dissemi-nation : postmodern hybridization and changing conditions for the representation of identity
Summary June Yip traces the growth and evolution of a Taiwan's sense of itself as a separate and distinct entity by examining the diverse ways a discourse of nation has been produced in the Taiwanese cultural imagination
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Popular culture -- Taiwan
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Popular culture
Massenkultur
Populaire cultuur.
Taiwan
Taiwan
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004005069
ISBN 9780822386391
0822386399