Island fantasia : : imagining subjects on the military frontline between China and Taiwan / / Wei-Ping Lin.
"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 rul...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, England : : Cambridge University Press,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Taiwan studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 310 pages) :; illustrations, maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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".