| Description |
356 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Asia-Pacific |
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Asia-Pacific: culture, politics, and society |
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Asia-Pacific.
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| Contents |
Introduction : envisioning Taiwan in a changing world -- 1. Confronting the other, defining a self : Hsiang-t'u literature and the emergence of a Taiwanese nationalism -- 2. Toward the postmodern : Taiwanese new cinema and alternative visions of nation -- 3. Remembering and forgetting, part I : history, memory, and the autobiographical impulse -- 4. Remembering and forgetting, part II : Hou Hsiao-hsien's Taiwan trilogy -- 5. Language and nationhood : culture as social contestation -- 6. The country and the city : modernization and changing apprehensions of space and time -- 7. 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- Taiwan.
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| LC no. |
2004005069 |
| ISBN |
0822333570 alkaline paper |
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0822333678 paperback alkaline paper |
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