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June Yip, Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary
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This is a review of June Yip's book Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary. The book is theoretically informed and focuses mainly in the works of two very important Taiwanese intellectuals: the filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien and the short story writer Huang Chunming. Although there are problems in the book, enumerated in the review, the book is a thoughtful, thorough, and theoretically informed treatment of Taiwanese culture and cultural production in the 1980s and 1990s.
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- Date created
- 2007-12-01
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- Taiwanese fiction; Taiwanese film; xiangtu wenxue; New Taiwan Cinema; the Other; the Self; postmodern; Third Cinema; memory; autobiographical impulse; representation of history; nationhood; Hou Hsiao-hsien; Huang Chunming; Yang Kui; Wu Zhuoliu; Zhong Zhaozheng; Zhong Lihe; Edward Yang; MM Bakhtin; Walter Benjamin;
- Raymond Williams;
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- Type of Item
- Review