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Literary Culture in Taiwan: Martial Law to Market Law (review)

Literary Culture in Taiwan: Martial Law to Market Law (review) Features Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang. Literary Culture in Taiwan: Martial Law to Market Law. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xi, 271 pp. Hardcover $38.00. ISBN 0-231-13234-4. Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang's study of the contextual forces that shaped literary history in Taiwan from 1949 to the early 1990s is the most comprehensive and theoretically sophisticated treatment of contemporary Chinese literature from Taiwan available to date in English. As a work that focuses on underlying issues such as cultural institutions, various literary camps, the political climate as it evolved through the decades, and other forces that shaped the environment in which literature was produced, this book is a very good complement to her previous book, Modernism and the Nativist Resistance: Contemporary Chinese Fiction from Taiwan (Duke, 1993), which primarily performs close readings of many salient literary texts written during the same period. The basic thesis of Literary Culture in Taiwan is that, given the gradual shift from political repression to hegemony and soft authoritarianism and finally to the predominant influence of market forces on literary trends, a new paradigm is necessary in order to adequately grasp the true nature of literary events in Taiwan over the past half-century. In particular, what http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Review International University of Hawai'I Press

Literary Culture in Taiwan: Martial Law to Market Law (review)

China Review International , Volume 15 (3) – Oct 24, 2009

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Features Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang. Literary Culture in Taiwan: Martial Law to Market Law. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xi, 271 pp. Hardcover $38.00. ISBN 0-231-13234-4. Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang's study of the contextual forces that shaped literary history in Taiwan from 1949 to the early 1990s is the most comprehensive and theoretically sophisticated treatment of contemporary Chinese literature from Taiwan available to date in English. As a work that focuses on underlying issues such as cultural institutions, various literary camps, the political climate as it evolved through the decades, and other forces that shaped the environment in which literature was produced, this book is a very good complement to her previous book, Modernism and the Nativist Resistance: Contemporary Chinese Fiction from Taiwan (Duke, 1993), which primarily performs close readings of many salient literary texts written during the same period. The basic thesis of Literary Culture in Taiwan is that, given the gradual shift from political repression to hegemony and soft authoritarianism and finally to the predominant influence of market forces on literary trends, a new paradigm is necessary in order to adequately grasp the true nature of literary events in Taiwan over the past half-century. In particular, what

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