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

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. Wit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Lin, Wei-Ping, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2021.
Colección:Taiwan studies series
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009645329506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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".