1st Edition
Re-writing Culture in Taiwan
1. Introduction: re-writing culture on Taiwan Paul-François Tremlett 2. Re-writing religion: questions of translation, context, and location in the writing of religion in Taiwan Fang-long Shih 3. Re-riting death: secularism and death-scapes in Taipei Paul-François Tremlett 4. Writing indigeneity in Taiwan Scott Simon 5. Re-writing museums in Taiwan Edward Vickers 6. Re-writing language in Taiwan Henning Klöter 7. Writing Taiwan’s nationhood: language, politics, history Mark Harrison 8. Re-writing cinema: markets, languages, cultures in Taiwan Chris Berry 9. Re-writing art in Taiwan: secularism, universalism, globalization, or modernity and the aesthetic object Felix Schoeber 10. Re-writing education: ‘learning to be Taiwanese’? Stuart Thompson Afterword Stephan Feuchtwang
Biography
Fang-long Shih is a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics, and the Convener of the Taiwan Research Programme.
Stuart Thompson is a Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and Chair of the London Taiwan Seminar since 2003.
Paul-François Tremlett is a Research Fellow in the Religions Department at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
'Each chapter is exceptionally well articulated, full of important insights, and presents a profoundly interesting range of issues relating to Taiwan's historical and cultural change. For these reasons, the volume stands out as an important contribution to Taiwan Studies.' - Marc L. Moskowitz, The China Quarterly, Volume 198 - June 2009
'The wide variety of perspectives for comparative research offered here will certainly serve as a valuable resource for students and researchers, not only in the area of Taiwan Studies, but also in the spheres of anthropology and social science in general.' - Jenns Damm, China Perspectives issue 2009-3
