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Imagining Taiwan
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Author : Sophie McIntyre
language : en
Publisher: Modern Asian Art and Visual Cu
Release Date : 2018
Imagining Taiwan written by Sophie McIntyre and has been published by Modern Asian Art and Visual Cu this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Art categories.
Taiwan's quest for identity and international recognition have unequivocally been the most important issues in Taiwan over the past 40 years, and they continue to generate impassioned debate, nationally and internationally. This book explores the instrumental roles artists, curators and museums have played in Taiwan's nation-building process. It focuses on the post-martial law period, from 1987 until 2010, a transformative period when democratization gave rise to a heightened sense of Taiwanese nationalism, and when issues concerning Taiwan's identity vis-à-vis with China, peaked.
Imaging And Imagining Taiwan
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Author : Bi-yu Chang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Imaging And Imagining Taiwan written by Bi-yu Chang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Group identity categories.
Since the 1990s the issue of identity has been one of the most prominent and hotly debated topics in Taiwan Studies. The book takes a fresh approach to this important topic, examining Taiwanese identity from a visual perspective and exploring the ways in which the island is presented and imagined. Covering a diverse range of topics, the book aims to capture the fluidity, changeability, fragmentation and dynamism of Taiwanese identity as an imaginary and encompassing whole.
Envisioning Taiwan
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Author : June Yip
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2004-10-07
Envisioning Taiwan written by June Yip and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-07 with Social Science categories.
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.
Island Fantasia
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Author : Wei-Ping Lin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-10-07
Island Fantasia written by Wei-Ping Lin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-07 with History categories.
An innovative ethnography and social history of the Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan.
Imagining Taiwan
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Author : Sophie McIntyre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Imagining Taiwan written by Sophie McIntyre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Art, Taiwan categories.
This thesis probes and analyses the critical role of art in the shaping of Taiwan's national identity during the period 1987-2010. With the rise of democratisation and national identity consciousness (bentu yishi), Taiwan's quest for national identity intensified after the lifting of martial law in 1987. The thesis challenges the view that art has played an inconsequential role in this identity discourse by demonstrating that artists, curators and art museums have significantly contributed towards the processes of identity formation, particularly during the peak period of the early-mid 1990s. Focusing on the nature and extent of the contribution of artists, curators and art museums to Taiwan's quest for identity, the thesis explores how national identity narratives were imagined, interpreted, projected and transmitted, nationally and internationally, through the production, selection and exhibition of art from Taiwan. Structurally, the thesis contextualizes each socio-political period, providing the backdrop for a series of case studies. These demonstrate how artists, curators and art museums became active agents in the processes of national identity formation, not only promoting but also critiquing and contesting identity narratives revolving around the concept of a 'Taiwan nation'. Given that national identities are relational and fluid constructs, the thesis reveals how identity discourses in art had diminished in significance by the early twenty-first century when globalisation, the rise of China, and art market forces transformed identity discourses in art from a Taiwan-centred narrative into one embracing not only regional and global perspectives but, most critically, dialogue and exchange with China.
Place Identity And National Imagination In Postwar Taiwan
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Author : Bi-yu Chang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Place Identity And National Imagination In Postwar Taiwan written by Bi-yu Chang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with HISTORY categories.
In the struggles for political and cultural hegemony that Taiwan has witnessed since the 1980s, the focal point in contesting narratives and the key battlefield in the political debates are primarily spatial and place-based. The major fault line appears to be a split between an imposed identity emphasizing cultural origin (China) and an emphasis on the recovery of place identity of 'the local' (Taiwan).Place, Identity and National Imagination in Postwar Taiwan explores the ever-present issue of identity in Taiwan from a spatial perspective, and focuses on the importance of, and the relationshi.
The Real Community Under Imagined States
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Author : Ichirō Numazaki
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Real Community Under Imagined States written by Ichirō Numazaki and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Ethnology categories.
Language Choice And Identity Politics In Taiwan
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Author : Jennifer M. Wei
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2008-04-18
Language Choice And Identity Politics In Taiwan written by Jennifer M. Wei and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-18 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Jennifer M. Wei argues that construction and perceptions of language and identity parallel sociopolitical transformations, and language and identity crises arise during power transitions. Under these premises, language and identity are never well-defined or well-bounded. Instead, they are best viewed as political symbols subject to manipulation and exploitation during socio-historical upheavals. A choice of language—from phonological shibboleth, Mandarin, or Taiwanese, to choice of official language—cuts to the heart of contested cultural notions of self and other, with profound implications for nationalism, national unity and ethno-linguistic purism. Wei further argues that because of the Chinese Diaspora and Taiwan's connections to China and the United States, arguments and sentiments over language choice and identity have consequences for Taiwan's international and transnational status. They are symbolic acts of imagining Taiwan's past as she looks forward to the future.
Imagining The Other The Construction Of Whiteness In Taiwan
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Author : Hsueh-hua Chen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Imagining The Other The Construction Of Whiteness In Taiwan written by Hsueh-hua Chen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Race awareness categories.
Taiwan S Imagined Geography
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Author : Emma Jinhua Teng
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-03-23
Taiwan S Imagined Geography written by Emma Jinhua Teng and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-23 with History categories.
"Until 300 years ago, the Chinese considered Taiwan a “land beyond the seas,” a “ball of mud” inhabited by “naked and tattooed savages.” The incorporation of this island into the Qing empire in the seventeenth century and its evolution into a province by the late nineteenth century involved not only a reconsideration of imperial geography but also a reconceptualization of the Chinese domain. The annexation of Taiwan was only one incident in the much larger phenomenon of Qing expansionism into frontier areas that resulted in a doubling of the area controlled from Beijing and the creation of a multi-ethnic polity. The author argues that travelers’ accounts and pictures of frontiers such as Taiwan led to a change in the imagined geography of the empire. In representing distant lands and ethnically diverse peoples of the frontiers to audiences in China proper, these works transformed places once considered non-Chinese into familiar parts of the empire and thereby helped to naturalize Qing expansionism. By viewing Taiwan–China relations as a product of the history of Qing expansionism, the author contributes to our understanding of current political events in the region."