Bi-Yu Chang

Place, Identity, and National Imagination in Post-War Taiwan

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Produktbeschreibung

This interdisciplinary book explores the ever-present issue of identity in Taiwan from a spatial perspective and examines the ways in which the Kuomintang regime naturalized its political control, territorialized the island and created a nationalist geography. By addressing the relationship between the state and the imagined community, Bi-yu Chang establishes a dialogue between place and cultural identity to analyse the constant changing and shaping of Chinese and Taiwanese identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781138788282
• ISBN-10: 1138788287
• Artikelnr.: 40819236

Autorenporträt

Bi-yu Chang is Deputy Director of the Centre of Taiwan Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Homeland Building: Nationalism, Identity, and Geographical
Imagination in post-war Taiwan 2. Building Castle in the Sand: The
Construction of National Imagination and Territorial Ownership in the ROC
Yearbooks (1951-2010) 3. Maps, Modernity, and the State: Taiwan's Post-war
Cartographic Development and Changing National Rhetoric 4. The Rise and
Fall of Sanminzhuyi Utopia: The Spatiality of Power in the Construction and
Dismantling of Chunghsing New Village 5. Home is a Foreign Country: The
'National Geography' in Post-war Elementary Education (1945-2000) 6.
Postscript: Home and Beyond