Introduction: Why Taiwan? Why Comparatize?, Shu-mei Shih and Ping-hui Liao Part I: Taiwan in Comparison 1. Comparativism and Taiwan Studies: Analyzing Taiwan in/out of Context, or Taiwan as an East Asian New World Society, Frank Muyard 2. Tiger’s Leap into the Past: Comparative Temporalities and the Politics of Redemption, Chien-heng Wu 3. Comparison for Com-passion: Exploring the Structures of Feeling in East Asia, Hong-luen Wang 4. Archipelagoes of Taiwan Literature: Comparative Methods and Island Writings in Taiwan, Yuting Huang 5. Paradoxes of Conservation and Comparison: Taiwan, Environmental Crises, and World Literatures, Karen Thornber 6. Weak Links, Literary Spaces, and Comparative Taiwan, Jing Tsu 7. Far-fetched Lands: The Caribbean, Taiwan, and Submarine Relations, Li-chun Hsiao Part II: Imperial Conjunctures and Contingencies 8. Is Feminism Translatable? Spivak, Taiwan, A-Wu, Shu-mei Shih 9. Voices of Empire in Dubliners and Taibenren, Margaret Hillenbrand 10. Body (Language) across the Sea: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Embodiment of Post/colonial Modernity, Faye Yuan Kleeman 11. Interlingual Discovery: Sato Haruo’s Travels in the Colony, Ping-hui Liao 12. Taiwan’s Postcolonial and Queer Discourse in the 1990s, Liang-ya Liou 13. Taiwan after the Colonial Century: Bringing China into the Foreground, Jieh-min Wu
Biography
Shu-mei Shih is Hong-Yin and Suet-Fong Chan Professor of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong, and Professor of Comparative Literature, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
Ping-hui Liao is Chuan-liu Professor of Literary and Critical Studies at the University of California, San Diego, USA.
"The wonderful collection of essays presented in this volume serves an important interest and future direction for Taiwan studies and perhaps methodologically for those engaged in comparative cultural studies elsewhere. The most commendable aspect of this volume is the experimental quality that it brings to the discussion. Routledge, the book’s publisher, should be commended for acknowledging not only the nuances and peculiarity Taiwan offers to scholarship, but also allowing space for the eccentric and unconventionality that researchers on Taiwan tend to possess."
Niki Alsford, Thinking Taiwan. See more at: http://thinking-taiwan.com/book-review-comparatizing-taiwan/#sthash.0WpgTffM.dpuf
