Table of Contents

Introduction - change and contention in Taiwan's cultural scene, Stevan Harrell and Huang Chun-chieh. Part 1 Culture in "crisis" - views of the past and outlooks for the future: cultural policy in postwar Taiwan, Edwin A. Winckler; civil society and Taiwan's quest for identity, Thomas B. Gold; Taiwan and the Confucian aspiration - toward the twenty-first century, Huang C.C. and Wu Kuang-ming. Part 2 Culture at the individual level - education and attitudes: investment in education and manpower development in postwar Taiwan, Sun Chen; transformation of farmers' social consciousness in post-war Taiwan, Huang C.C.; Part 3 Culture with a small c - everyday life: playing in the valley - a metonym of modernization, S. Harrell; changes in postwar Taiwan and their impact on the popular practice of religion, David K. Jordan; tourism, formulation of cultural tradition and ethnicity - a study of the Daiyan identity of the Wulai Atayal, Hsieh Shih-chung. Part 4 Culture with a big c - literature and the arts: sociocultural change as reflected in short fiction, 1979-1989, Chu Yen; modern poetry in Taiwan - continuities and innovations, Michelle Yeh; after the empire - painters of the postwar generation, Jason C. Kuo; feminist consciousness in the contemporary fiction of Taiwan, Sung Mei-hwa.

About the Author

Stevan Harrell is professor of anthropology at the University of Washington.