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Cultural Discourse in Taiwan. Ed. Chin-Chuan Cheng, I-Chun Wang Humanities and Social Sciences Series and the Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities Series, National Sun Yat-sen University Published in 2009 by the Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the College of Liberal Arts, National Sun Yat-sen Cultural Discourse in University, 70 Lien-Hai Road, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan Taiwan Published with financial assistance by National Sun Yat-sen University Edited by ©2009 Authors, Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Chin-Chuan Cheng, I-Chun Wang, and and the College of Liberal Arts, National Sun Yat-sen University Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Printed and bound in Taiwan by okprint. Co., LTD., Kaohsiung Illustration: Courtesy of Libraries, University of Texas Austin Cultural Discourse in Taiwan Edited by Chin-Chuan Cheng, I-Chun Wang, and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Editorial assistants: Lin Rou-ann and Lan Wen-lin ISBN: 978-986-01-9506-4 1. Taiwan Literary History 2. Cultural Studies I. Cheng, Chin-Chuan II. Wang, I-Chun III. Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven 書名(中文)：台灣文化論述 書名(英文)：Cultural Discourse in Taiwan 編輯: 鄭錦全、王儀君、陶鐸希 出版者： 國立中山大學人文社會中心及文學院 國際書碼 (ISBN): 978-986-01-9506-4 印刷廠: 正合印刷有限公司 出版地：高雄 出版時間: 民國九十八年十月三十一日 Contents Introduction to Cultural Discourse in Taiwan 1 I-Chun Wang and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Contexts of Taiwan Studies in the U.S. Academe 10 Sung-Sheng Yvonne Chang Taiwanese Identity Shift and the Struggle for Cultural Hegemony in the 1990s 30 Bi-Yu Chang Nativist Rhetoric in Contemporary Taiwan 52 Pei-Yin Lin Poetry, Politics, and the Reception of Yu Guangzhong's "Nostalgia" 78 Weiliang Huang Taiwan, China, and Yang Mu's Alternative to National Narratives 87 Lisa L.M. Wong The Position of Sinophone Malaysian Literature within the Polysystem of Taiwan Literature 108 Tee Kim Tong Fashioning Identity in Taiwan Vernacular Poetry 123 I-Chun Wang Linguistic Flows, Subjectivity in Cross-Writing, and Language Experiments in Modern Taiwan Literature 138 Yu-Lin Lee Immigrant Brides and Language Problems in Taiwan 161 Chin-Chuan Cheng Analyzing East/West Power Politics in Comparative Cultural Studies 177 William H. Thornton Review Article of June Yip, Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary and Leo T.S. Ching, Becoming "Japanese": Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation 201 Alexander C.Y. Huang Bibliography for the Study of Cultural Discourse in Taiwan 212 Yu-Chun Chang, I-Chun Wang, and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Index 236 I-Chun Wang and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Introduction to Cultural Discourse in Taiwan scholarships paid attention to the local aspects of Taiwan culture as I-Chun Wang and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek well as its relationship to Chinese culture. Taiwan tries hard to embrace the world and promotes its visibility, and its democracy is The collected volume Cultural Discourse in Taiwan is intended as recognized by most part of the world. David Der-wei Wang and an addition to scholarship in the field of Taiwan Studies. The Carlos Rojas refer in their edited volume Writing Taiwan: A New articles in the volume are in many aspects comparative and the Literary History to Taiwan literature as one of the most contested topics discussed are in the context of literary and culture zones in the mapping of modernity and modernization in Chinese scholarship. At the same time, the volume is interdisciplinary as culture. As they write, Taiwan was regarded traditionally as being the articles cover historical perspectives, analyses of texts by located on the margins of Chinese politics, society, and including Taiwan authors, and cultural discourse as related to Taiwan scholarship; however, because of its colonial experiences, Taiwan consciousness, language, and linguistic issues. Over the past fifty literature and culture embody a diversity of cultural heritage and years, Taiwan has constructed itself by virtue of its development in creativity because of its conflicting legacies, impulses, and self-recognition as a democratic society and its location and ideological forces. During the past ten years, Taiwan consciousness position within the controversial situation with regard to the "One and Taiwan cultural politics have been the primary concerns of China Policy." In particular, the efforts and policies by various scholars in various disciplines and Taiwan cultural policy and levels of government towards inclusion, recognition, and dialogue cultural processes remain at the core of debates about issues with the Indigenous population of the island represent a sign of related to Taiwan cultural identity. interculturalism in a democratic and inclusive society. This is, in Taiwan remains at the crossroad of changes in culture and particular, of importance with regard to culture and literature, as society. During the last decades Taiwan cultural policy, the impact well as scholarship. The position of Taiwan on the landscapes of of globalization, and Taiwan consciousness help(ed) the Asian and Chinese culture, society, and history is — as many development of Taiwan as a multicultural society while issues scholars in a number of fields argue(d) — that the island's culture remaining to be discussed include cultural aspects represented in is unique and it should not be regarded simply as an appendage of media, literature, the matter of language(s) in the context of the Mainland China. Taiwan exemplifies the process of cultural construction and re-construction of culture in Taiwan society. formation and formulation, and it represents the dynamics of Fangming Chen writes that "literary history must always be cultural processes where the East and West meet in a specific and considered in the context of the societal conditions that gave rise extraordinary locus. Taiwan society and culture developed during both to the literary works and to the authors" (Hou zhi min Taiwan the past thirty years following a dictatorship under the looming [Postcolonial Taiwan], Mai Tien, 2002. 26). By examining the presence of the "other" dictatorship across the straits and its context of Taiwan literary history, cultural background, and cultural claims on Taiwan: the difference between the two systems with discourses, the volume's readers might be able to know the trends regard to the observation of human rights and political turmoil of Taiwan cultural discourse and detect the phenomenon that remains relevant. Taiwan’s democratic test continues and China culminates the flourishing of Taiwan literature. Until now, Taiwan has by now stepped into the age of globalization. Scholarships on literature has not been easily accessible to the reading public on the political position of and cultural development in Taiwan attract the international landscape. In English in the context of an attentions from scholars in the fields of liguistics, national literature, international and global readership and scholarship, with the comparative literature and cultural policies. A significant part of publication of such seminal texts as Chang Hsi-kuo's and John 1 2 Introduction to Cultural Discourse in Taiwan I-Chun Wang and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Balcom's City Trilogy: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan cultural globalization, a trend accelerated by the twin forces of the (Columbia University Press, 1997), Wang Der-wei's and Carlos industrialized West's neoliberalist capitalism and the digital turn Rojas's collected volume Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History since the late twentieth century — which Taiwan is a significant (Duke University Press 2007), Jonathan Mantrorpe's Forbidden part of. In sum, Chang argues that attention ought to be paid to Nation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), Melissa J. Brown's Is Taiwan the contexts and driving forces of the said impact of globalization Chinese?: The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on by scholars of Taiwan literature and culture. Changing Identities (University of California Press, 2004), Bruce Bi-yu Chang discusses in her article "The Cultural Turn and Herschensohn's Taiwan: The Threatened Democracy (World Ahead Taiwan Identity in the 1990s". Taiwan identity formation in the Publishing, 2007), and John Copper's Taiwan: Nation-state or context of political conflicts and the emergence of Taiwan Province (Westview Press, 2008), Taiwan's cultural, literary, and awareness with the postulate that changes in Taiwan identity social identity and its problematics are established. However, formation were primarily a result of democratization. Further, owing to Taiwan's political, social, cultural, and literary history, its Chang argues that changes in identity formation are the result processes, and its current developments, Taiwan's cultural cultural, as well as political processes. Recognizing the impossibility discourse as presented in the articles of the volume at hand would of searching for a "true" Taiwanese identity, Chang maps the prove useful for the advancement of Taiwan Studies within literary struggles between contested discourses and follows the and (comparative) cultural studies (on the developing field of construction of a Taiwan-centric identity in the 1990s. She pays comparative cultural studies, see Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, ed., particular attention to the role that Taiwan cultural policy played in Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies (Purdue the formation of a new hegemonic discourse where this includes an University Press, 2003; see also the Purdue monograph series of examination of how cultural policy produced new meanings in the Books in Comparative Cultural Studies, as well as the peer-
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