ENVISIONING TAIWAN | 誠品線上

ENVISIONING TAIWAN

內容簡介

內容簡介 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. Traces the growth and evolution of a Taiwan's sense of itself as a separate and distinct entity by examining the diverse ways a discourse of nation has been produced in the Taiwanese cultural imagination.

各界推薦

各界推薦 【94年9月好讀推薦】作者葉菁是UCLA的電影碩士、普林斯頓的比較文學博士，她由此取徑，從六、七○年代的鄉土文學與八、九○年代的新電影，來探討台灣的文化認同與國族認同如何因著台灣複雜的歷史際遇與全球消費主義的興起，而使漢文化的主體在美、日影響下產生質變；而威權統治的式微以及本土化與民主化的合流，使得台灣的國族認同呈現錯亂、分歧而對立的局面。

作者介紹

作者介紹 June Yip is an independent scholar living in Los Angeles. She has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and an M.A. in Cinema Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she has taught Chinese film.

商品規格

活動

• 7/29前 愛讀日｜圖書滿$888折$88
• 7/29前 全站滿$1,600折$150
• 7/29前 全站滿$5,200折$500
• 7/29前 愛讀日｜圖書滿$1,200折$120