Re-writing Culture in Taiwan

Fang-long Shih is a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics, and the Convener of the Taiwan Research Programme.Stuart Thompson is a Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and Chair of the London Taiwan Seminar since 2003. Paul-François Tremlett is a Research Fellow in the Religions Department at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

• 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

'Each chapter is exceptionally well articulated, full of important insights, and presents a profoundly interesting range of issues relating to Taiwan's historical and cultural change. For these reasons, the volume stands out as an important contribution to Taiwan Studies.' - Marc L. Moskowitz, The China Quarterly, Volume 198 - June 2009'The wide variety of perspectives for comparative research offered here will certainly serve as a valuable resource for students and researchers, not only in the area of Taiwan Studies, but also in the spheres of anthropology and social science in general.' - Jenns Damm, China Perspectives issue 2009-3