UID:
almahu_9949384423602882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780429666582
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0429666586
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9780429663864
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0429663862
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9780429661143
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0429661142
,
9780429022227
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0429022220
Series Statement:
Routledge research on Taiwan series
Content:
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.
Note:
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
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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
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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
Additional Edition:
Print version: Positioning Taiwan in a global context being and becoming. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 ISBN 9780367077129
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429022227
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429022227
