Politics and Cultural Nativism in 1970s Taiwan - Youth, Narrative, Nationalism

In recent decades Taiwan has increasingly come to see itself as a modern nation-state. A-chin Hsiau traces the origins of Taiwanese national identity to the 1970s, when a surge of domestic dissent and youth activism transformed society, politics, and culture in ways that continue to be felt.

Sommario

Acknowledgments
Preface
Notes on Romanization and Translation
Introduction: Get Real
1. Generation and National Narration
2. Education, Exile, and Existentialism in the 1960s
3. The Rise of the Return-to-Reality Generation in the Early 1970s
4. The Rediscovery of Taiwan New Literature
5. The Reception of Nativist Literature
6. Dangwai Historiography
Conclusion: The Renarration of Identity
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Info autore

A-chin Hsiau is a research fellow and professor at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, in Taipei. He is the author of Contemporary Taiwanese Cultural Nationalism (2000) as well as several works in Chinese.

Riassunto

In recent decades Taiwan has increasingly come to see itself as a modern nation-state. A-chin Hsiau traces the origins of Taiwanese national identity to the 1970s, when a surge of domestic dissent and youth activism transformed society, politics, and culture in ways that continue to be felt.

Testo aggiuntivo

A milestone of international Taiwan studies . . .With a solid scholarship, Hsiau has woven a convincing narrative of the power of ideas, and the moving saga of how Taiwanese youth's difficult search for their true selves should find wider resonance in present-day Taiwan, China, and beyond.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: A-chin Hsiau
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780231200530
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20053-0
• Pagine: 312
• Serie: Global Chinese Culture
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Sistema politico; Taiwan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Political structure & processes, Social and cultural history, Social and cultural anthropology, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, Political structure and processes, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General