(En)Gendering Taiwan The Rise of Taiwanese Feminism

This book highlights the diversity and richness of non-Mainland China and Taiwan-oriented gender issues from a unique Taiwanese perspective, in contrast to previous studies that have often placed Taiwanese gender issues under the huge umbrella of Mainland

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(En) Gendering Taiwan The Rise of Taiwanese Feminism

(En)Gendering Taiwan

Ya-chen Chen Editor

(En)Gendering Taiwan The Rise of Taiwanese Feminism

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Editor Ya-chen Chen Columbia University New York, NY USA and China Medical University Taichung Taiwan

ISBN 978-3-319-63217-9 ISBN 978-3-319-63219-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63219-3

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Contents

1 Introduction: (En)Gendering Taiwan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ya-chen Chen 2 Siraya Concepts of Marriage in Seventeenth-Century Sincan: Impressions Gathered from the Letters of Two Dutch Missionaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Natalie Everts

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3 Taiwanese Communist Feminist, Xie Xuehong: Li Ang’s Literary Portrait of Xie Xuehong’s Pre-1949 Feminist Activism in Taiwan. . . . Ya-chen Chen

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4 “The Only Thing Oriental About Me Is My Face”: The True Picture of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daniel Palm and Linda Chiang

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5 Cinematic Metaphors of Autumn Cicadas and Chilling Cicadas: The Way Out of Legal Bottlenecks in Sex Appeal . . . . . . . . Ya-chen Chen

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6 An Investigation of the Huangmei Opera Film Genre: The Audience’s Perception of Ling Po’s Male Impersonation . . . . . . . . . . Yeong-Rury Chen

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7 Factors Promoting Women’s Participation in Taiwan’s Politics . . . . Cal Clark and Janet Clark

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8 Gendering of Academic in Taiwan: From Women’s Studies to Gender Studies, 1985–2015 . . . . . . . .