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Island fantasia : imagining subjects on the military frontline between China and Taiwan /

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"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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Main Author: Lin, Wei-Ping (Author)
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Series:Taiwan studies
Subjects:
Lienchiang County (Taiwan) > History.
Lienchiang County (Taiwan) > Social life and customs.
Lienchiang County (Taiwan) > History, Military.
Taiwan > History, Military > 1945-
Taiwan > Histoire militaire > 1945-
HISTORY / Asia / General.
Manners and customs
Taiwan
Since 1945
Electronic books.
History
Military history
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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".