Cultural change in postwar Taiwan
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Cultural change in postwar Taiwan
Westview Press, 1994
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Papers presented at conference held April 10-14, 1990, in Seattle
Bibliography: p. 302-326
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This interdisciplinary study brings together perspectives from literature, anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, history, philosophy, and art to explore the culture of a fully industrialized society with a traditional Chinese background. Discussing the rich and profound cultural changes that have occurred in tandem with postwar Taiwans economic explosion, the contributors explore the countrys arts and literature, religion and rituals, and the everyday lives of its people. With its increasing wealth, a growing and better-educated urban population, and one of the worlds largest trade surpluses, Taiwan has shed its identity as an impoverished, war-torn nation and joined the ranks of developed countries. Yet, despite the attention focused on the countrys profound transformation, surprisingly little information exists on the concomitant changes that have occurred within the cultural matrix of arts and literature, religion and ritual, and the everyday life of Taiwans people.This interdisciplinary study brings together perspectives from literature, anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, history, philosophy, and art to explore the culture of a fully industrialized society with a traditional Chinese background.
In addition, the contributors explore the importance of key cultural influences on Taiwan such as traditional Chinese agrarian society, the legacy of Japanese colonialism, the cosmopolitan West, and the unique aspects of the indigenous way of life.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - change and contention in Taiwan's cultural scene, Stevan Harrell and Huang Chun-chieh. Part 1 Culture in "crisis" - views of the past and outlooks for the future: cultural policy in postwar Taiwan, Edwin A. Winckler
- civil society and Taiwan's quest for identity, Thomas B. Gold
- Taiwan and the Confucian aspiration - toward the twenty-first century, Huang C.C. and Wu Kuang-ming. Part 2 Culture at the individual level - education and attitudes: investment in education and manpower development in postwar Taiwan, Sun Chen
- transformation of farmers' social consciousness in post-war Taiwan, Huang C.C.
- Part 3 Culture with a small c - everyday life: playing in the valley - a metonym of modernization, S. Harrell
- changes in postwar Taiwan and their impact on the popular practice of religion, David K. Jordan
- tourism, formulation of cultural tradition and ethnicity - a study of the Daiyan identity of the Wulai Atayal, Hsieh Shih-chung. Part 4 Culture with a big c - literature and the arts: sociocultural change as reflected in short fiction, 1979-1989, Chu Yen
- modern poetry in Taiwan - continuities and innovations, Michelle Yeh
- after the empire - painters of the postwar generation, Jason C. Kuo
- feminist consciousness in the contemporary fiction of Taiwan, Sung Mei-hwa.
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