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Title Re-writing culture in Taiwan / edited by Fang-Long Shih, Stuart Thompson, and Paul-François Tremlett
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 218 pages) : illustrations
Series Asia's transformations
Asia's transformations.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Contributors; Note on Transliteration; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Re-writing culture on Taiwan; 1 Re-writing religion: Questions of translation, context, and location in the writing of religion in Taiwan; 2 Re-riting death: Secularism and death-scapes in Taipei; 3 Writing indigeneity in Taiwan; 4 Re-writing museums in Taiwan; 5 Re-writing language in Taiwan; 6 Writing Taiwan's nationhood: Language, politics, history; 7 Re-writing cinema: Markets, languages, cultures in Taiwan
Summary Examining issues such as trauma, memory, history, tradition, modernity, post-modernity, and with chapters on nationalism, anthropology, cultural studies, media studies, religion and museum studies, this book offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of contemporary Taiwan
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject HISTORY.
Civilization -- Study and teaching
SUBJECT Taiwan -- Civilization -- Study and teaching
Subject Taiwan
Form Electronic book
Author Shih, Fang-Long.
Thompson, Stuart.
Tremlett, Paul-François.
ISBN 9780203888353
0203888359
Other Titles Rewriting culture in Taiwan