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Author:   Shu-mei Shih (University of California Los Angeles, USA) ,  Ping-hui Liao (University of California San Diego, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138094925

ISBN 10:   1138094927
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   25 May 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Why Taiwan? Why Comparatize? Part I: Taiwan in Comparison 1. Comparativism and Taiwan Studies: Analyzing Taiwan in/out of Context, or Taiwan as an East Asian New World Society 2. Tiger’s Leap into the Past: Comparative Temporalities and the Politics of Redemption 3. Comparison for Com-passion: Exploring the Structures of Feeling in East Asia 4. Archipelagoes of Taiwan Literature: Comparative Methods and Island Writings in Taiwan 5. Paradoxes of Conservation and Comparison: Taiwan, Environmental Crises, and World Literatures 6. Weak Links, Literary Spaces, and Comparative Taiwan 7. Far-fetched Lands: The Caribbean, Taiwan, and Submarine Relations Part II: Imperial Conjunctures and Contingencies 8. Is Feminism Translatable? Spivak, Taiwan, A-Wu 9. Voices of Empire in Dubliners and Taibenren 10. Body (Language) across the Sea: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Embodiment of Post/colonial Modernity 11. Interlingual Discovery: Sato Haruo’s Travels in the Colony 12. Taiwan’s Postcolonial and Queer Discourse in the 1990s 13. Taiwan after the Colonial Century: Bringing China into the Foreground

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The wonderful collection of essays presented in this volume serves an important interest and future direction for Taiwan studies and perhaps methodologically for those engaged in comparative cultural studies elsewhere. The most commendable aspect of this volume is the experimental quality that it brings to the discussion. Routledge, the book's publisher, should be commended for acknowledging not only the nuances and peculiarity Taiwan offers to scholarship, but also allowing space for the eccentric and unconventionality that researchers on Taiwan tend to possess. Niki Alsford, Thinking Taiwan. See more at: http://thinking-taiwan.com/book-review-comparatizing-taiwan/#sthash.0WpgTffM.dpuf

The wonderful collection of essays presented in this volume serves an important interest and future direction for Taiwan studies and perhaps methodologically for those engaged in comparative cultural studies elsewhere. The most commendable aspect of this volume is the experimental quality that it brings to the discussion. Routledge, the book's publisher, should be commended for acknowledging not only the nuances and peculiarity Taiwan offers to scholarship, but also allowing space for the eccentric and unconventionality that researchers on Taiwan tend to possess. Niki Alsford, Thinking Taiwan. See more at: http://thinking-taiwan.com/book-review-comparatizing-taiwan/#sthash.0WpgTffM.dpuf

Author Information

Shu-mei Shih is Hong-Yin and Suet-Fong Chan Professor of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong, and Professor of Comparative Literature, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Ping-hui Liao is Chuan-liu Professor of Literary and Critical Studies at the University of California, San Diego, USA.

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