Nativism and modernity : cultural contestations in China and Taiwan under global capitalism / Ming-yan Lai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lai, Ming-yan, 1961-

Series:

SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--China.

Nationalism.

Gender identity--Political aspects.

Gender identity.

Nationalism and literature.

China.

Nationalism--Taiwan.

Nationalism and literature--China.

Nationalism and literature--Taiwan.

Nativism.

Gender identity--Political aspects--China.

Gender identity--Political aspects--Taiwan.

Taiwan.

Physical Description:

vii, 233 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Cultural contestations in China and Taiwan under global capitalism

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2008]

Summary:

Nativism and Modernity is the first comparative study of xiangtu nativism in Taiwan and xungen nativism in China. It offers a new critical perspective on these two important literary and cultural movements in contemporary Chinese contexts and shows how nativism can be a vital form of place-based oppositional practice under global capitalism. While nativism has often been viewed in nostalgic terms, Ming-yan Lai instead focuses on the structural implications of nativist oppositional claims and their transformations of marginality into alternative discursive spaces and practices. Through contextual analysis and close readings of key texts, Lai addresses interdisciplinary issues of modernity and critically explores the two nativist discourses' various engagements with power relations covering a multitude of social differentiations, including nation, class, gender, and ethnicity.

Contents:

Introduction: Interrogating (through) the Native 1

Chapter 1 Of Alter/Natives, Margins, and Post/Modernity at the Rim 15

Chapter 2 Beneath the Claims of Native Soil: Class, Nation, Gender, and Xiangtu Nativism in Taiwan 41

Chapter 3 Beyond the Reach of Roots: Marginality, Masculinity, and Xungen Nativism in the People's Republic of China 99

Chapter 4 Gendering Natives, Engendering Alternatives 161

Postscript: Place-based Politics in China and Taiwan Today 175

SUNY series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies 233.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-218) and index.

ISBN:

9780791472859

079147285X

OCLC:

85892384