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Literary Culture in Taiwan
Sung-Sheng Yvonne Chang
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Description for Literary Culture in Taiwan
Contemporary Taiwanese literature has often been neglected and misrepresented by literary historians both inside and outside of Taiwan. Chang provides a comprehensive and fluent history of late twentieth-century Taiwanese literature by placing this vibrant tradition within the contexts of a modernizing local economy, a globalizing world economy, and a postcolonial and post-Cold War world order. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; 2GDC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
With monumental changes in the last two decades, Taiwan is making itself anew. The process requires remapping not only the country's recent political past, but also its literary past. Taiwanese literature is now compelled to negotiate a path between residual high culture aspirations and the emergent reality of market domination in a relatively autonomous, increasingly professionalized field. This book argues that the concept of a field of cultural production is essential to accounting for the ways in which writers and editors respond to political and economic forces. It traces the formation of dominant concepts of literature, competing literary trends, and ... Read more
With monumental changes in the last two decades, Taiwan is making itself anew. The process requires remapping not only the country's recent political past, but also its literary past. Taiwanese literature is now compelled to negotiate a path between residual high culture aspirations and the emergent reality of market domination in a relatively autonomous, increasingly professionalized field. This book argues that the concept of a field of cultural production is essential to accounting for the ways in which writers and editors respond to political and economic forces. It traces the formation of dominant concepts of literature, competing literary trends, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231132343
SKU
V9780231132343
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About Sung-Sheng Yvonne Chang
Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang is professor of Chinese and comparative literature at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Modernism and the Nativist Resistance: Contemporary Chinese Fiction from Taiwan.
Reviews for Literary Culture in Taiwan
Literary Culture in Taiwan is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of Taiwan's literary development.
Rosemary Haddon The China Journal The most comprehensive and theoretically sophisticated treatment of contemporary chinese literature available to date in English
Christopher Lupke China Review International
Rosemary Haddon The China Journal The most comprehensive and theoretically sophisticated treatment of contemporary chinese literature available to date in English
Christopher Lupke China Review International