Literary culture in Taiwan : martial law to market law /

Chang provides a comprehensive history of late 20th century Taiwanese literature by placing the vibrant local tradition within the contexts of a modernising economy, & a postcolonial, post-Cold War world order.

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Main Author: Chang, Sung-sheng, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Academic contexts an conceptual frameworks
  • Political and market factors in the literary field
  • Soft-authoritarian rule and the mainstream position
  • The modernist trend and the aestheticization of the "China trop" in mainstream literature
  • Localist position as a product of social opposition
  • Fukan-based literary culture and middle-class genres
  • High culture aspirations and the transformations of mainstream fiction
  • New developments in the post-martial law period.