Comparatizing Taiwan(1st Edition) (Routledge Contemporary China Series) by Shu-Mei Shih, Ping-HuiLiao Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-09492-5, ISBN: 1-138-09492-7
"As the site of crossings of colonizers, settlers, merchants, and goods, island nations such as Taiwan have seen a rich confluence of cultures, where peoples and languages were either forced to mix or did so voluntarily, due largely to colonial conquest and their crucial role in world economy. Through an examination of socio-cultural phenomena, Comparatizing Taiwan situates Taiwan globally, comparatively, and relationally to bring out th ..."
"The first study of colonial Taiwan in English, this volume brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars to construct a comprehensive cultural history of Taiwan under Japanese rule. Contributors from the United States, Japan, and Taiwan explore a number of topics through a variety of theoretical, comparative, and postcolonial perspectives, painting a complex and nuanced portrait of a pivotal time in the formation of Taiwanese nat ..."
Taiwan The Land Colonialisms Made (Boundary 2) by Arif Dirlik, Ping-HuiLiao, Ya-Chung Chuang Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2018 by Duke University Press Books Special Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-0357-1, ISBN: 1-4780-0357-X
"The contributors to this special issue examine the role successive colonialisms played in forging a distinct Taiwanese identity and the theoretical implications the Taiwanese experience of colonialism raises regarding the making of modern national identities. In addition to its indigenous culture, a long succession of colonial rulers—variously the Netherlands, Spain, the kingdom of Tungning, the Ming and Qing dynasties, Japan, and Kuomi ..."
"As the site of crossings of colonizers, settlers, merchants, and goods, island nations such as Taiwan have seen a rich confluence of cultures, where peoples and languages were either forced to mix or did so voluntarily, due largely to colonial conquest and their crucial role in world economy. Through an examination of socio-cultural phenomena, Comparatizing Taiwan situates Taiwan globally, comparatively, and relationally to bring out th ..."
"This truly interdisciplinary book will be welcomed by students and scholars
interested in Taiwan studies, Sinophone studies, comparative cultural studies,
post-colonial studies, and literary studies. Shu-mei Shih is Hong-Yin and Suet-
Fong Chan Professor of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong and Professor of
Comparative Literature, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American
Studies at the University of California, Los Ange ..."
"Li Ang (1952-) is a famous and prolific feminist writer from Taiwan who challenges and subverts sociocultural traditions through her daring explorations of sex, violence, women's bodies and desire, and national politics. As a taboo-breaking writer and social critic, she uses fiction to expose injustice and represent human nature. Her political engagement further affords her a visionary perspective for interrogating the problematic inter ..."
"Ping-hui. Liao. Much has been written about the development of mutlticulturalism
in the contexts of Euro-American societies and in relation to their overseas
colonies, though often to the neglect of East Asian counterparts. In the pages
ahead, I propose to look at a case of interlingual discovery and cultural critique
from within as exemplified by a Japanese writer and colonizer's travel narratives
in early-twentieth-century Asia. ..."
"History, Culture, Memory Ping-hui Liao, David Der-Wei Wang. ), and other
classics were written. It is enough for a language” (Zheng). The views cited above
all considered the Peking dialect to have nothing special to offer; Taiwan's
common language was closely similar to it, and therefore a change was not all
that necessary. In his “Letter to Luo Hequan,” Zhang Chunfu, a member of both
the Taiwan Ying Society and the Star Society, ..."
"Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free from the rigid ideology of westernization as modernity, this volume's diverse group of contributors argues that the Chinese experience is cr ..."
"Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free from the rigid ideology of westernization as modernity, this volume's diverse group of contributors argues that the Chinese experience is cr ..."
"This volume, the third in a series of four on the general issue of Multilingualism in World Literature, is focused upon the relationship between Migrancy and Multilingualism, including its aquatic, terrestrian and globalizing imagery and ideology. The cover picture Wandering Tongues, an iconic translation of the book's title, evokes one of the paradigmatic figures of migrancy and multilingualism: the migrations of the early Mexican peop ..."