Writing Taiwan

Preface / David Der-wei Wang vii Introduction / Carlos Rojas 1 Part One: The Limits of Taiwan Literature 1. Representing Taiwan: Shifting Geopolitical Frameworks / Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang 17 2. Postmodern or Postcolonial? An Inquiry into Postwar Taiwanese Literary History / Fangming Chen 26 3. the Concept of Taiwan Literature / Xiaobing Tang 51 Part Two: Cultural Politics 4. The Importance of Being Perverse: China and Taiwan, 1931-1937 / Joyce C. H. Liu 93 5. On Our Destitute Dinner Table: Modern Poetry Quarterly in the 1950s / Michelle Yeh 113 6. The Literary Development of Zhong Lihe and Postcolonial Discourse in Taiwan / Fenghuang Ying 140 7. Wang Wenxing's Backed against the Sea, Parts I and II: The Meaning of Modernism in Taiwan's Contemporary Literature / Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang 156 Part Three: History, Truth, and Textual Artifice 8. The Monster That Is History: Jiang Gui's A Tale of Modern Monsters / David Der-wei Wang 181 9. Taiwanese Identity and the Crisis of Memory: Post-Chiang Mystery / Yomi Braester 213 10. Doubled Configuration: Reading Su Weizhen's Theatricality / Gang Gary Xu 233 11. Techniques behind Lies and the Artistry of Truth: Writing about the Writings of Zhang Dachun / Kim-chu Ng 253 Part Four: Spectral Topographies and Circuits of Desire 12. Travel in Early-Twentieth-Century Asia: Wu Zhuoliu's Nanking Journals and His Notion of Taiwan's Alternative Modernity / Ping-hui Liao 285 13. Mapping Identity in a Postcolonial City: Intertextuality and Cultural Hybridity in Zhu Tianxin's Ancient Capital / Lingchei Letty Chen 301 14. Li Yongping and Spectral Cartography / Carlos Rojas 324 15. History, Exchange, and the Object Voice: Reading Li Ang's The Strange Garden and All Sticks Are Welcome in the Censer of Beigang / Chaoyang Liao 348 16. Reenchanting the Image in Global Culture: Reification and Nostalgia in Zhu Tianwen's Fiction / Ban Wang 370 Appendix: Chinese Characters for Authors' Names and Titles of Works 389 Contributors 395 Index 397

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