Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context

Bi-yu Chang is Deputy Director of the Centre of Taiwan Studies at SOAS, University of London. Her research interests include identity politics, nation-building, cultural politics, and cultural geography. Her book Place, Identity and National Imagination in Postwar Taiwan was published by Routledge.Pei-yin Lin is Associate Professor in the School of Chinese, University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on Sinophone literature and film. She is the author of Colonial Taiwan: Negotiating Identities and Modernity through Literature (2017) and co-editor of East Asian Transwar Popular Culture (2019).

• Introduction Part 1: Repositioning Taiwan 1. Positioning ‘Taiwanese Literature’ to the World: Taiwan as Represented and Perceived in English Translation 2. Translating Taiwan Southward 3. It All Starts in Hualien: Pangcah Woman, Rose, Rose, I Love You, and The Man with the Compound Eyes 4. The Making of Taiwanese Martial Arts Fiction: The Case of Gu Long 5. Indiginizing Queer Fiction and Queer Theories: A Study on Chi Ta-wei’s Sci-Fi Novels Part 2: Cultural Flows and Becoming 6. From ‘Free China’ to Sunny Paradise: The Worlding Process in the Magazine Tourism in Taiwan (1966~1974) 7. The Paradise of Gourmets: Representing Taiwanese Cuisine in Japanese Tourist Media (1964-) 8. Savage World, Immortal Island: The Colonial Gaze and Colonial Taste of Penglai Rice 9. Let’s Talk About Love: Hong Kong’s Geopolitical Narratives of Emotion and Stories of Lifestyle Migration in Taiwan 10. Getting to Know Taiwan: Borrowed Gaze, Direct Involvement and Everyday Life 11. Localizing the Japanese Manga System and Making Folk Religion Manga-esque: Wei Zongcheng’s Ming Zhan-lu: Final Destiny of the Formosan Gods 12. Charting the Transnational within the National: The Case of Contemporary Taiwan Popular Cinema 13. Countervisions: Exotic Voyages in the work of Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang 14. Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples and Cinema: From Mascot to Fourth Cinema?

"Showing how Taiwan is imagined in and outside Taiwan, this book covers topics ranging from food culture, tourist media, manga, migration life stories, to Taiwanese literature and cinema. An interesting book about the multi-facets of Taiwan as a site of contesting discourses."Kuei-fen Chiu, Distinguished Professor of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan