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Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary

Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary

          
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In discussions of postcolonial nationhood and cultural identity, Taiwan is often overlooked. Yet the island--with its complex history of colonization--presents a particularly fascinating case of the struggle to define a "nation." While the mainland Chinese government has been unequivocal in its resistance to Taiwanese independence, in Taiwan, government control has gradually passed from mainland Chinese immigrants to the Taiwanese themselves. Two decades of democratization and the arrival of consumer culture have made the island a truly global space. Envisioning Taiwan sorts through these complexities, skillfully weaving together history and cultural analysis to give a picture of Taiwanese identity and a lesson on the usefulness and the limits of contemporary cultural theory.

Yip traces a distinctly Taiwanese sense of self vis-à-vis China, Japan, and the West through two of the island's most important cultural movements: the hsiang-t'u (or "nativist") literature of the 1960s and 1970s, and the Taiwanese New Cinema of the 1980s and 1990s. At the heart of the book are close readings of the work of the hsiang-t'u writer Hwang Chun-ming and the New Cinema filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien. Key figures in Taiwan's assertion of a national identity separate and distinct from China, both artists portray in vibrant detail daily life on the island. Through Hwang's and Hou's work and their respective artistic movements, Yip explores "the imagining of a nation" on the local, national, and global levels. In the process, she exposes a perceptible shift away from traditional models of cultural authenticity toward a more fluid, postmodern hybridity--an evolution that reflects both Taiwan's peculiar multicultural reality and broader trends in global culture.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780822333579
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Series Title: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
  • Sub Title: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary
  • Width: 159 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0822333570
  • Publisher Date: 07 Oct 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 649 gr


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