Re-writing culture in Taiwan
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Bibliographic Information
Re-writing culture in Taiwan
(Asia's transformations / edited by Mark Selden)
Routledge, 2009
- : hbk
Available at 11 libraries
  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
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliografical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of 'Taiwan Studies', and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future.
As the study of Taiwan shifts from being a provincial back-water of sinology to an area in its own (albeit not sovereign) right, a combination of established and up and coming scholars working in the field of East Asian studies offer a re-reading and re-writing of culture in Taiwan. They show that sustained critical analysis of contemporary Taiwan using issues such as trauma, memory, history, tradition, modernity, post-modernity provides a useful point of departure for thinking through similar problematics and issues elsewhere in the world.
Re-writing Culture in Taiwan is a multidisciplinary book with its own distinctive collective voice which will appeal to anyone interested in Taiwan. With chapters on nationalism, anthropology, cultural studies, media studies, religion and museum studies, the breadth of ground covered is truly comprehensive.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Re-writing Culture on Taiwan 2. Re-writing Religion: Questions of Translation, Context, and Location in the Writing of Religion in Taiwan 3. Re-riting Death: Secularism and Death-scapes in Taipei 4. Writing Indigeneity in Taiwan 5. Re-writing Museums in Taiwan 6. Re-writing Language in Taiwan 7. Writing Taiwan's Nationhood: Language, Politics, History 8. Re-writing Cinema: Markets, Languages, Cultures in Taiwan 9. Re-writing art in Taiwan: Secularism, Universalism, Globalization, or Modernity and the Aesthetic Object 10. Re-writing Education: 'learning to be Taiwanese'? Afterword
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