TY  - GEN
T1  - Island fantasia : imagining subjects on the military frontline between China and Taiwan
T2  - Taiwan studies series
A1  - Lin, Wei-Ping
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/Cambridge_open_access_CR9781009023481
AB  - 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 long-term fieldwork, 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. This title is Open Access.
OP  - 310
NO  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Sep 2021).
CN  - DS799.8 .L56 2021
SN  - 9781009023481 (ebook)
SN  - 9781316519370 (hardback)
SN  - 9781009010405 (paperback)
SN  - 9781316519370
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ER  -