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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 oppositional practice under global capitalism. While nativism has often been viewed in nostalgic terms, Ming-yan Lai instead focuses on the structural implications of nativist oppositional claims and their transformations of marginality into alternative discursive spaces and practices. Through contextual analysis and close readings of key texts, Lai addresses interdisciplinary issues of modernity and critically explores the two nativist discourses' various engagements with power relations covering a multitude of social differentiations, including nation, class, gender, and ethnicity.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Interrogating (through) the Native

1. Of Alter/Natives, Margins and Post/Modernity at the Rim

2. Beneath the Claims of Native Soil: Class, Nation, Gender, and Xiangtu Nativism in Taiwan

3. Beyond the Reach of Roots: Marginality, Masculinity, and Xungen Nativism in the People’s Republic of China

4. Gendering Natives, Engendering Alternatives

Postscript: Place-based Politics in China and Taiwan Today

Notes
Index

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Literary theory

Asia

China

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	01 janvier 2009
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780791479162
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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SUNY series

EXPLORATIONS in POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES

Emmanuel C. Eze and Arif Dirlik, editors

A complete listing of books in this series can be found at the end of this volume.

Nat i v i s m a n d M o d e r n i t y

Cultural Contestations in China and Taiwan under Global Capitalism

MING-YAN LAI

S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y o f N e w Yo r k P r e s s

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Lai, Ming-yan, 1961– Nativism and modernity : cultural contestations in China and Taiwan under global capitalism / Ming-yan Lai. p. cm. — (SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7914-7285-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Nationalism—China. 2. Nationalism—Taiwan. 3. Nativism. 4. Modernism (Literature) I. Title. II. Title: Cultural contestations in China and Taiwan under global capitalism.

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Acknowledgments

C o n t e n t s

Introduction: Interrogating (through) the Native

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Of Alter/Natives, Margins, and Post/Modernity at the Rim

Beneath the Claims of Native Soil: Class, Nation, Gender, andXiangtu Nativism in Taiwan

Beyond the Reach of Roots: Marginality, Masculinity, andXungenNativism in the People’s Republic of China

Gendering Natives, Engendering Alternatives

Postscript: Placebased Politics in China and Taiwan Today

Notes

Index

SUNY series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies

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A c k n ow l e d g m e n t s

This book has traveled with me through so many personal and intellectual developments that it is impossible to adequately acknowledge all to whom thanks and gratitude are due. Research for various parts of the book has been supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the China Times Cultural Foundation, the Pacific Cultural Foundation, and the Purdue Research Foundation. I am grateful to those who made possible my receiving such generous support. Unlike research funding, intellectual debts are much more difficult to trace and credit, considering their interstitial, transforming, and transformative power. My sincere thanks go to the teachers, friends, colleagues, and students in the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Purdue University, University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong who have enriched my life and understanding in innumerable ways. I want espe-cially to thank Arif Dirlik, Leo Lee, David Wang, Geri Friedman, Paddy Fumerton, Dick Hebdige, and Shu-mei Shih for sparing time and energy from their hectic schedules to read all or parts of the manuscript, and offering wonderful and insightful comments, not all of which I managed to incorpo-rate into a necessarily limited study. For boundless support and everyday sus-tenance, without which none of my intellectual work is possible, I thank my family, particularly my mother, Cham Yuk Sing, whose help relieves me of the guilt of occasional absent-minded parenting; Raymond Wong, whose love and computer skills have seen me through various scrapes in our years together; and Hanwey Wong, who brings enormous joy into our lives and inspires me to keep faith in an alternative future.

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I N T R O D U C T I O N

I n t e r ro g at i n g ( t h ro u g h ) t h e Nat i v e

What and why does the native matter in a world where capitalism has appar-ently extended its reach into all corners and globalization has become a house-hold term even in former margins of the capitalist empire like the People’s Republic of China? This question haunts us as our supposedly global world witnesses an intensification of “fundamentalist” revival and separatist move-ments laying claim to native cultural identity disrupt the putative force of cul-tural homogenization under global capitalism. For all our celebration of global culture, transnationalism and cosmopolitan sensibilities, imaginations and evocations of the native keep turning up with renewed rigor. Yet our dominant discursive paradigms seem indisposed to address the question or engage the paradox of an insistence on native claims in a world of shifting and perforated borders. The privileging of travel, diaspora, and hybridity in current cultural theories tends to sidestep nativism. It circumscribes the native within the his-torical legacy of imperialist cultural mapping, which denies equality and coevality to non-Western cultures by relegating them to the primitive and the exotic. Though not without critical potential, this common way of framing the native in terms of (post)coloniality and the impossibility of leaving Western imperialism and its epistemic violence behind fixes the concept in hegemonic 1 knowledge production. It thus categorically denies the very possibility of a nativist alternative that motivates the discursive (re)turn to the native, seeing evocations of the native by the (ex)colonized as ultimately little different from Western imperialist constructions of the native. So delimited, contemporary references to the native can only be cast in the light of nostalgic conservatism that maintains Western dominance and hegemony in a binary opposition. Are all nativist claims to alternative grounding merely a derivative of Western imperialist discourse establishing and confirming the power and identity of the West? Is self-Orientalism necessarily the fate of nativist claims

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