Literary Culture in Taiwan: Martial Law to Market Law

Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang

October, 2004
Cloth, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13234-3
$39.50 / £23.00

1. Academic Contexts and Conceptual Frameworks

2. Political and Market Factors in the Literary Field

3. Soft-Authoritarian Rule and the Mainstream Position

4. The Modernist Trend and Aestheticization of the "China Trope" in Mainstream Literature

5. Localist Position as a Product of Social Opposition

6. Fukan-Based Literary Culture and Middle-Class Fiction

7. High Culture Aspirations and Transformations of Mainstream Fiction

8. New Developments in the Post–Martial Law Period

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature

About the Author

Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang is professor of Chinese and comparative literature at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Modernism and the Nativist Resistance: Contemporary Chinese Fiction from Taiwan.

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