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.

Series:

Taiwan studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lienchiang County (Taiwan)--History.

Taiwan--History, Military--1945-.

Lienchiang County (Taiwan)--History, Military.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 310 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : 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 long-term fieldwork, 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. This title is Open Access.

Contents:

Part I History of the Matsu Archipelago

Forbidden Outpost

Becoming a Military Frontline

To Leave or to Stay?

Gambling with the Military State

Part II New Technologies of Imagination

Digital Matsu

Online War Memory

Part III Fantasia of the Future

Women and Families in Transition

Community Materialized through Temple Building

Novel Religious Practices as Imaginative Works

A Dream of "Mediterranean Asia".

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Sep 2021).

ISBN:

9781009021234

1009021230

9781009021036

1009021036

9781009023481

1009023489

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access