Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary by June Yip [in AsianWeek]
06 Jan, by in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Repost, Taiwanese
Through close readings of “nativist” Taiwanese literature of the 1960s and 1970s and of the Taiwanese New Cinema of the 1980s and 1990s, Yip offers a distinct national Taiwanese identity independent of historical Chinese...
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The concept of “Western modernity” traveling east throughout Asia, as it is reflected in the contemporary cinemas of Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
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From one of Taiwan’s best-known writers, Apples is a superb collection filled with sharp, resonating stories about simple native folk surviving day to day, fighting poverty and isolation.
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A perfectly titled, adorable counting story about ...