Beschreibung:
Fang-long Shih is a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics, and the Convener of the Taiwan Research Programme.
Examining issues such as trauma, memory, history, tradition, modernity, post-modernity, and with chapters on nationalism, anthropology, cultural studies, media studies, religion and museum studies, this book offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of contemporary Taiwan.
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