Nativism and Modernity : Cultural Contestations in China and Taiwan under Global Capitalism /

Nativism and Modernity is the first comparative study of xiangtu nativism in Taiwan and xungen nativism in China. It offers a new critical perspective on these two important literary and cultural movements in contemporary Chinese contexts and shows how nativism can be a vital form of place-based opp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lai, Ming-yan (Author)
Other Authors: Dirlik, Arif (Contributor), Eze, Emmanuel C. (Contributor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Albany : SUNY Press, [2009]
Series:SUNY series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18253531
Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Interrogating (through) the Native
  • Of Alter/Natives, Margins, and Post/Modernity at the Rim
  • Beneath the Claims of Native Soil
  • Beyond the Reach of Roots
  • Gendering Natives, Engendering Alternatives
  • Place-Based Politics in China and Taiwan Today
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Suny Series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies