Island fantasia : imagining subjects on the military frontline between China and Taiwan / Wei-Ping Lin, National Taiwan University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lin, Wei-Ping, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Taiwan studies.

Taiwan studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History, Military.

Manners and customs.

Lienchiang County (Taiwan)--History.

Lienchiang County (Taiwan).

Lienchiang County (Taiwan)--Social life and customs.

Lienchiang County (Taiwan)--History, Military.

Taiwan--History, Military--1945-.

Taiwan.

Genre:

History.

Military history.

Physical Description:

xvii, 310 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Imagining subjects on the military frontline between China and Taiwan

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule. With the lifting of martial law in 1992, the people were confronted with the question of how to move forward. This in-depth ethnography and social history of the islands focuses on how individual citizens redefined themselves and reimagined their society. Drawing on interviews with local fishermen as well as army personnel, Wei-Ping Lin shows how islanders used both traditional and new media to cope with the conflicts and trauma of harsh military rule. She discusses the formation of new social imaginaries through the appearance of 'imagining subjects', interrogating their subjectification processes and varied uses of mediating technologies as they seek to answer existential questions"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I History of the Matsu Archipelago

1. Forbidden Outpost

2. Becoming a Military Frontline

3. To Stay or to Leave?

4. Gambling with the Military State

pt. II New Technologies of Imagination

5. Digital Matsu

6. Online War Memory

pt. III Fantasia of the Future

7. Women and Families in Transition

8. Community Materialized through Temple Building

9. Novel Religious Practices as Imaginative Works

10. A Dream of an "Asian Mediterranean".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Lin, Wei-Ping. Island fantasia

ISBN:

9781316519370

1316519376

9781009010405

1009010409

OCLC:

1246623107

Publisher Number:

99989036649