{"product_id":"literary-culture-in-taiwan-9780231132343","title":"Literary Culture in Taiwan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContemporary 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiterary 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 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","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51358991712599,"sku":"9780231132343","price":55.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231132343.jpg?v=1754123130","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/literary-culture-in-taiwan-9780231132343","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}