Reorientating Taiwan: Ocean, Selfhood, and the Pacific /
Reorientating Taiwan: Ocean, Selfhod, and the Pacific redefines how you see Taiwan, moving beyond land-centred perspectives to embrace its deep connection with the Pacific. This interdisciplinary collection takes you on a journey through anthropology, literature, ecology, and art, revealing Taiwan a...
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2025.
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Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
Brill Series in Taiwan Studies ;
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |t Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Reorientating Taiwan as a Pacific Island -- Niki J.P. Alsford -- PART 1: New Waves of Ocean Thinking -- 1 O RiYar ko Singsi Niyam/The Ocean is Our Teacher -- Oceanic Dialogues in Amis Contemporary Art -- DJ W. Hatfield -- 2 The Politics of Cloth -- Barkcloth in the Context of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists -- Niki J. P. Alsford -- PART 2: Oceanic Writing and Translation in Literature -- 3 Topography, Archipelagic Imaginary and Eco-criticism -- Three Modalities of Oceanic Writing from Contemporary Taiwan -- Pei-yin Lin -- 4 Translate the Sea -- Oceanicity and Decoloniality in Syaman Rapongan's Works -- Gwennaël Gaffric -- 5 From the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea -- Fuyanren and Its Translations into Catalan and Italian -- Antonio Paoliello-Palermo and Mireia Vargas-Urpí -- PART 3: Ocean and Marine Representations in Art and Media -- 6 Oceans and Isles in Contemporary Taiwanese Comics -- Environment, Art, and Identity -- Norbert Danysz -- 7 The Oceanic Turn in Taiwan's Environmental Discourse -- Issues of Marine Ecosystem in Two Taiwanese Activist Eco-documentaries -- Kuei-fen Chiu and Hsing-juh Lin -- PART 4: Oceanic Entanglements: Encounter of the Human and Nonhuman Worlds -- 8 Oceanic Nodes of Entanglement -- Taiwan in a Meshwork of Human-Avian Lives -- Scott E. Simon -- 9 Entanglements between the Land and the Sea -- The Case of Tao People and their More-than-Liquid Identity -- Julien Laporte -- 10 "Those Fishes have Ph.D." -- The Interactions between Reef Fishes and Underwater Spearfishing Men among Amis People in Taiwan -- Futuru C. L. Tsai -- Reflection: Pacific Cetaceans and the Oceanic Turn in Taiwan -- Hung-chi Liao (translated by Ti-han Chang) -- Conclusion: Framing an Oceanic Narrative for Taiwan Studies in UK Higher Education and Beyond -- Ti-han Chang -- Index. | |
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