Literary culture in Taiwan : martial law to market law / Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chang, Sung-sheng, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese literature--Taiwan--History and criticism.

Chinese literature.

Chinese literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With monumental changes in the last two decades, Taiwan is making itself anew. The process requires remapping not only the country's recent political past, but also its literary past. Taiwanese literature is now compelled to negotiate a path between residual high culture aspirations and the emergent reality of market domination in a relatively autonomous, increasingly professionalized field. This book argues that the concept of a field of cultural production is essential to accounting for the ways in which writers and editors respond to political and economic forces. It traces the formation of dominant concepts of literature, competing literary trends, and how these ideas have met political and market challenges. Contemporary Taiwanese literature has often been neglected and misrepresented by literary historians both inside and outside of Taiwan. Chang provides a comprehensive and fluent history of late twentieth-century Taiwanese literature by placing this vibrant tradition within the contexts of a modernizing local economy, a globalizing world economy, and a postcolonial and post-Cold War world order.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1

Chapter 1. Academic Contexts and Conceptual Frameworks

Chapter 2. Political and Market Factors in the Literary Field

Part 2

Chapter 3. Soft-Authoritarian Rule and the Mainstream Position

Chapter 4. The Modernist Trend and Aestheticization of the "China Trope" in Mainstream Literature

Chapter 5. Localist Position as a Product of Social Opposition

Part 3

Chapter 6. Fukan-Based Literary Culture and Middle-Class Genres

Chapter 7. High Culture Aspirations and Transformations of Mainstream Fiction

Chapter 8. New Developments in the Post-Martial Law Period

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-256) and index.

ISBN:

9780231507127

0231507127

OCLC:

818856973