Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context examines modern Taiwanese culture through the prism of global cultural interactions. Challenging the view of Taiwan as a product of transience and displacement it highlights Taiwan’s subjectivity viewing the island as a site of a global development that epitomizes both resistance and negotiation in the process of cultural flows. The fourteen contributions by an international team of scholars investigate the multi-layered and multidirectional interplays between the island and the outside world exploring the impact of complex cultural encounters on the construction writing and rewriting of Taiwan in a global context. Taking an interdisciplinary approach the topics covered range from Taiwanese literature cinema food culture and tourism to cultural geography colonial history and folk religion with comparisons made with Japan China Hong Kong the Philippines and the West. Focusing on continuous cross-cultural interplays this book affords readers a deeper understanding of identity politics and a better insight into the fluidity changeability and constructionist nature of culture. As such it will be will be of great interest to students and scholars of Taiwan Studies and Cultural Studies as well as Asian film literature and popular culture. | Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context Being and Becoming