Reorientating Taiwan: Ocean, Selfhood, and the Pacific (Brill Series in Taiwan Studies)

Alsford, Niki J.P. (EDT)/ Chang, Ti-Han (EDT)

Brill（2025/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 280 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004727120

Full Description

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 as a cradle of Austronesian expansion and a hub of oceanic entanglements. You'll discover how Taiwan's vibrant marine culture influences its identity, from Indigenous traditions to contemporary environmental activism. This book invites you to explore Taiwan's cultural and ecological narratives in a way that is both profound and transformative.

Contents

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