The Politics of Locality: Making a Nation of Communities in Taiwan [Hardcover]

Hsin-Yi Lu (Author)

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Hardcover: 206 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (Aug 30 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415934338
ISBN-13: 978-0415934336
Product Dimensions: 24 x 15.3 x 1.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 467 g

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During the mid-1990s, Taiwan witnessed a remarkable proliferation of historical writings and cultural movements pertaining to 'the local'. 'Place (difang)' and 'community (shequ)' became two ubiquitous terms in the lexicon of being Taiwanese.
This book is a critical examination of the socio-historical condition in which the discourse of local diversity emerged and gradually permeated Taiwan's public culture. Interweaving ethnographic sensibility and theoretical insights across disciplines, including anthropology, cultural studies and cultural geography the study elucidates the complex relationships between localism, nationalism and globalism. Not only is it a rare type of ethnography in Taiwan studies, this book also enriches our understanding of the increasingly significant field of East Asia (post)modernity.

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BENTU HUA (INDIGENIZATION) AND QUANQIU HUA (GLOBALIZATION) ARE PROBably the two most compelling and ubiquitous themes in the lexicon of Taiwaneseness today. Read the first page

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