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...Arif Dirlik This essay takes up two issues: the part successive colonialisms played in forging a Taiwan identity, and the theoretical implications of the Taiwan (and Hong Kong) experience for colonialism in the making of modern identities. It argues that the cumulative experience of colonialism...

...Ya-Chung Chuang This essay examines the recent crisis of democracy in Taiwan. The Sunflower Movement and its enduring dynamism have successfully mobilized Taiwanese voters to rethink an urgent situation with regard to the “PRC effect,” which, related to an economic and political assertion...

...Leo T. S. Ching This essay analyzes two Taiwan differences in East Asia—the presence of an indigenous population and its alleged pro-Japan sentiments— and examines how indigeneity and intimacy offer the potential to rethink questions of reconciliation outside of the state-centric model of political...

...Nikky Lin; Shu-jung Chen Taiwanese literature has long been closely related to social movements. In fact, Taiwan New Literature (modern Taiwanese literature) itself was born out of social protest. Taiwan’s longstanding political situation of authoritarian rule has prompted the island’s writers...

... challenged. Taiwan literature, and how its critics and writers are redefining its relationship to its complicated linguistic past and contemporary allies, marks one such important regional interface where this particular process of literary governance is unfolding. This essay places Taiwan in the regional...

... in ways that reproduce the ethnic hierarchy and maintains the privileged status of Chineseness in Taiwan. The reprivileging of Chineseness operates through the commodification of Taiwaneseness as ethnicity, and thus as difference, in the age of globalization, which works to the advantage of the CCP...

...Ping-hui Liao Since the 1949 great divide between the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan has been under pressure to seek recovery from or reunification with China. Now, with the rise of China as a global superpower and the redeployment of a trans-Pacific military, as well...

...Leo Ou-fan Lee This essay aims to gauge the different receptions of Ang Lee's recent film Lust, Caution between American and Chinese publics and across a cultural landscape of the pan-Chinese regions of Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. It also brings a contextual and historical dimension...

...P. Kerim Friedman For most of its postwar history, Taiwan’s government promoted a perception of the nation as a bastion of authentic Chinese culture. This changed in the 1990s, when Taiwan began to embrace its multicultural heritage, including the languages and cultures of the indigenous population...

... of the Chinese Nationalist Party. I propose that the first postwar generation’s experience of suppression after 1945 and the second generation’s exuberant postcolonial visions in the 1990s are essential entry points to understanding the affective politics of national identity formation in today’s Taiwan...

... . Mr. Selden’s Map of China: Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer . New York : Bloomsbury Press . Brown Melissa J. Brown . 2004 . Is Taiwan Chinese? The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities . Berkeley : University of California Press . Fangli...

..., such as Taiwan, where there has been a long tradi- 5983 b2 27:1 / sheet 60 of 237 tion of literati turned public officials, a high level of mutual dependence is also ingrained into the broader fabric of social values. In such a society, the paradox...

...: The Poetry of Idiomatic Insistences,” edited by Paul Bové. Allen Chun is Research Fellow Emeritus in the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. From August 2019, he has been Chair Professor in the Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University...

... its importance has been invoked in the politics of identity. The fact that Chinese diaspora in postwar Hong Kong and Taiwan now simply refer to themselves as Hong Kongers and Taiwanese is more importantly reflective of the way politics is inextricably implicated in the definition of ethnic...

... emerging victorious and the KMT decamped to Taiwan. Contemporary Asian nations are therefore newly minted nationstates that resulted from anticolonial struggles and civil wars. Nationalism continues to be a very fundamental political sentiment in these relatively new nations...

..., May 31, 2011; at the “Transnational American Studies as Theory and Praxis” conference, Tsinghua University, Beijing, June 8, 2012; and as part of a “Bob Dylan in Asia” panel held at Bookman Bookstore in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 15, 2012. I am grateful to fellow panelists, conference organizers...

... “Mainland China” here in a historical sense. For the last fifty years, “Main- land China” represented for many the Communist deviation from true Chinese culture, which was supposedly preserved in Taiwan and, to a much smaller extent, in isolated pockets in Hong Kong, such as the Chinese...

... University in Taiwan. His study, Be Always Converting, Be Always Con- verted: An American Poetics, was selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 by Choice. He teaches in the Literature Department at the University of Cali- fornia at Santa Cruz. ...

... in the Humanities and author of the forthcoming Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation (2017). His current book in progress concerns the limits of algorithmic imagination. Hsiao-­pei Yen is an editor at the Center for Chinese Studies, National Central Library, Taiwan. She received her PhD in history from...

...., and Lisa Maya Knauer, eds. Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space. Radical Perspectives. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univer- sity Press, 2005. Yip, June. Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imagi- nary. Asia-Pacific. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press...