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Book SynopsisContemporary Taiwanese literature has often been neglected and misrepresented by literary historians both inside and outside of Taiwan. Chang provides a comprehensive and fluent history of late twentieth-century Taiwanese literature by placing this vibrant tradition within the contexts of a modernizing local economy, a globalizing world economy, and a postcolonial and post-Cold War world order.
Trade ReviewLiterary Culture in Taiwan is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of Taiwan's literary development. -- Rosemary Haddon The China Journal The most comprehensive and theoretically sophisticated treatment of contemporary chinese literature available to date in English -- Christopher Lupke China Review International
Table of Contents1. Academic Contexts and Conceptual Frameworks 2. Political and Market Factors in the Literary Field 3. Soft-Authoritarian Rule and the Mainstream Position 4. The Modernist Trend and Aestheticization of the "China Trope" in Mainstream Literature 5. Localist Position as a Product of Social Opposition 6. Fukan-Based Literary Culture and Middle-Class Fiction 7. High Culture Aspirations and Transformations of Mainstream Fiction 8. New Developments in the Post-Martial Law Period
