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Title

  • Island fantasia : imagining subjects on the military frontline between China and Taiwan

Other Title

  • Imagining subjects on the military frontline between China and Taiwan

Summary

  • "The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule. With the lifting of martial law in 1992, the people were confronted with the question of how to move forward. This in-depth ethnography and social history of the islands focuses on how individual citizens redefined themselves and reimagined their society. Drawing on interviews with local fishermen as well as army personnel, Wei-Ping Lin shows how islanders used both traditional and new media to cope with the conflicts and trauma of harsh military rule. She discusses the formation of new social imaginaries through the appearance of 'imagining subjects', interrogating their subjectification processes and varied uses of mediating technologies as they seek to answer existential questions"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

  • Lin, Wei-Ping, author

Created / Published

  • Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Contents

  • Part I History of the Matsu Archipelago -- Forbidden Outpost -- Becoming a Military Frontline -- To Leave or to Stay? -- Gambling with the Military State -- Part II New Technologies of Imagination -- Digital Matsu -- Online War Memory -- Part III Fantasia of the Future -- Women and Families in Transition -- Community Materialized through Temple Building -- Novel Religious Practices as Imaginative Works -- A Dream of "Mediterranean Asia".

Headings

  • -  HISTORY / Asia / General
  • -  Lienchiang County (Taiwan)--History, Military
  • -  Lienchiang County (Taiwan)--History
  • -  Lienchiang County (Taiwan)--Social life and customs
  • -  Taiwan--History, Military--1945

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

  • DS799.8

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021025025

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Lin, Wei-Ping, Author. Island fantasia: imagining subjects on the military frontline between China and Taiwan. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021025025/.

APA citation style:

Lin, W. (2021) Island fantasia: imagining subjects on the military frontline between China and Taiwan. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021025025/.

MLA citation style:

Lin, Wei-Ping, Author. Island fantasia: imagining subjects on the military frontline between China and Taiwan. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2021025025/>.