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Title Positioning Taiwan in a global context : being and becoming / edited by Bi-yu Chang and Pei-yin Lin
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019
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Series Routledge research on Taiwan series
Routledge research on Taiwan series
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Note on Romanization, translation, and citation; Introduction; Part I Repositioning Taiwan; 1 Positioning 'Taiwanese literature' to the world: Taiwan as represented and perceived in English translation; 2 Translating Taiwan southward; 3 It all starts in Hualien: Pangcah Woman; Rose, Rose, I Love You; and The Man with the Compound Eyes; 4 The making of Taiwanese martial arts fiction: The case of Gu Long
5 Indigenizing queer fiction and queer theories: A study on Chi Ta-wei's sci-fi novelsPart II Cultural flows and becoming; 6 From 'Free China' to sunny paradise: The worlding process in the magazine Tourism in Taiwan (1966-1974); 7 The gourmet paradise: The gustatory gaze toward Taiwan in Japanese tourist media (1964-present); 8 Savage world, immortal island: The colonial gaze and colonial taste of Penglai rice; 9 Let's talk about love: Hong Kong's geopolitical narratives of emotion and stories of lifestyle migration in Taiwan
10 Getting to know Taiwan: Borrowed gaze, direct involvement and everyday lifePart III The production and contestation of indigeneity; 11 Localizing the Japanese manga system and making folk religion manga-esque: Wei Tsung-cheng's Ming Zhan-lu: Final Destiny of the Formosan Gods; 12 Charting the transnational within the national: The case of contemporary Taiwan popular cinema; 13 Countervisions: Exotic voyages in the work of Hou Hsiaohsienand Edward Yang; 14 Taiwan's indigenous peoples and cinema: From colonial mascot to Fourth Cinema?; Index
Summary Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context examines modern Taiwanese culture through the prism of global cultural interactions. Challenging the view of Taiwan as a product of transience and displacement, it highlights Taiwan's subjectivity, viewing the island as a site of a global development that epitomizes both resistance and negotiation in the process of cultural flows. The fourteen contributions by an international team of scholars investigate the multi-layered and multidirectional interplays between the island and the outside world, exploring the impact of complex cultural encounters on the construction, writing and rewriting of Taiwan in a global context. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the topics covered range from Taiwanese literature, cinema, food culture and tourism to cultural geography, colonial history, and folk religion, with comparisons made with Japan, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the West. Focusing on continuous cross-cultural interplays, this book affords readers a deeper understanding of identity politics and a better insight into the fluidity, changeability, and constructionist nature of culture. As such, it will be will be of great interest to students and scholars of Taiwan Studies and Cultural Studies, as well as Asian film, literature and popular culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Bi-yu Chang is Deputy Director of the Centre of Taiwan Studies at SOAS, University of London. Her research interests include identity politics, nation-building, cultural politics, and cultural geography. Her book Place, Identity and National Imagination in Postwar Taiwan was published by Routledge. Pei-yin Lin is Associate Professor in the School of Chinese, University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on Sinophone literature and film. She is the author of Colonial Taiwan: Negotiating Identities and Modernity through Literature (2017) and co-editor of East Asian Transwar Popular Culture (2019)
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Subject Globalization -- Taiwan
Identity politics -- Taiwan
Popular culture -- Taiwan
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Politics and government
Civilization
Diplomatic relations
Globalization
Identity politics
Popular culture
SUBJECT Taiwan -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00008421
Taiwan -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85131997
Taiwan -- Foreign relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85131985
Subject Taiwan
Form Electronic book
Author Chang, Bi-yu, editor
Lin, Pei-yin, editor
LC no. 2019014286
ISBN 9780429666582
0429666586
9780429663864
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9780429661143
0429661142
9780429022227
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