Connecting Taiwan: Participation - Integration - Impacts

ISBN-13: 9781138576773 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 228 str.

Carsten Storm

Opis

This book challenges the image of Taiwan’s marginalization and seeks to understand Taiwan in terms of the impacts it makes globally, regionally and transnationally. It takes a multi-disciplinary approach covering themes such as markets and trading, diplomacy, collective action, the internet, film, literature, pop-culture and religious mission.

Spis treści

1. Introduction, Carsten Storm 2. Framing Connectivity: Concepts and the Case of Taiwan, Carsten Storm Part I Institutions 3. Politics of Repositioning and State Spatiality: From ‘Xiangtu China’ to ‘Oceanic Taiwan’, Bi-yu Chang 4. The Taiwan-EU Economic Relationship: a Channel for Greater Assertiveness?, Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan 5. Science Communication in Taiwan: Rethinking the Local and Global, Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley and Gary D. Rawnsley Part II Persons and Groups 6. Taiwan’s Industrialization Policy in the Era of Globalization: From Sector Specific to Macro Management, Peter C. Y. Chow 7. Across borders: The Export of Taiwan’s Lingji Practices to Singapore, Fabian Graham 8. The Impact of the Taiwanese LGBTQ Movement in Mainland China, Jens Damm Part III Ideas 9. Exporting Values or Exoticizing? Lee Ang and Global Cinema, Carsten Storm 10. The Literary Island: Isolation and Integration as Key-elements in Reading Taiwan literature, Federica Passi 11. United in Grief – The Individualisation of Death Rituals as Depicted in the Feature Films Seven Days in Heaven, Departures and Death at a Funeral, Birgit Häse

O autorze

Carsten Storm currently teaches at the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. He works on Chinese and Taiwanese literature and film and focuses on narrative and aesthetic strategies in creating meaning and coherence.