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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