ISBN:
9783447063746
Language:
English
Pages:
223 S.
,
240 mm x 170 mm
Series Statement:
Studia formosiana vol. 6
Series Statement:
Studia formosiana
DDC:
320.951249
Keywords:
Taiwan aborigines History
;
Taiwan Civilization
;
Taiwan Colonization
;
Taiwan Politics and government
;
Konferenzschrift 2008
;
Taiwan
;
Demokratisierung
;
Geschichte
;
Taiwan
;
Politischer Wandel
;
Demokratisierung
;
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Abstract:
One of the most important aspects of democracy has been the transition from colonialism. In Taiwan this discussion is typically framed in political discourse that focuses on theoretical issues. Becoming Taiwan departs from this well-traveled route to describe the cultural, historical and social origins of Taiwan’s thriving democracy. Contributors were specifically chosen to represent both Taiwanese and non-Taiwanese researchers, as well as a diverse range of academic fields, from Literature and Linguistics to History, Archeology, Sinology and Sociology. The result represents a mixture of well-known scholars and young researchers from outside the English-speaking world. The volume addresses three main issues in Taiwan Studies and attempts answers based in the historical record: How Chinese is Taiwan? Organizing a Taiwanese Society, and Speaking about Taiwan. Individual chapters are grouped around these three themes illustrating the internal dynamics that transformed Taiwan into its current manifestation as a thriving multiethnic democracy. Our approach addresses these themes pointing out how Taiwan Studies provides a multidisciplinary answer to problems of the transformation from colonialism to democracy.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction / Ann Heylen and Scott SommersEntering the mountains to rule the aborigines: Taiwanese Aborigine education and the colonial encounter / P. Kerim Friedman -- The linguistic adaptation of Jesuits in Taiwan under the government of Chiang Kai-shek: political and cultural stakes / Alexander Tsung-ming Chen -- Romancing the Formosan Aborigine: colonial interethnic romance and its democratic revision in postwar film and fiction / Darryl Sterk -- Remaking "Taiwan": literary representation of the 2.28 Incidient by Lin Yaode and Li Qiao / Pei-Yin Lin -- Engineering the social or engaging "everyday modernity"? Interwar Taiwan reconsidered / Hui-yu Caroline Ts'ai -- The marginal, the paragovernmental, and the parasites: revisiting the dualist debate of rights to sex work in Taipei / Fang-Mei Lin -- The hallway of memory: a case study on the diversified interpretation of cultural heritage in Taiwan / Min-Chin Chiang -- L'etranger across the Taiwan strait: History of the Civil War Taiwanese Koumintang solders / Shi-Chi Mike Lan -- Reflections on becoming educated in colonial Taiwan / Ann Heylen -- Silence in postwar Taiwan / Sandrine Marchand -- Early postwar debates on Taiwan and Taiwanese literature / Táňa Dluhošová -- Mandarin, Taiwanese and English in the linguistic ecology of a modern Taiwan / Scott Sommers.
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