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From ‘Free China’ to sunny paradise
Get PDFAs a crucial part of the US-led Asia–Pacific security framework, and standing against communist expansion, Taiwan and its offshore islands acted as an anti-communist bulwark during the Cold War. Under the prevailing fear of communist infiltration at the height of the Cold War, it is somewhat surprising that the ROC authorities exerted themselves to promote international tourism and opened its door to attract international visitors. In the mid-1960s, as part of the policy to accelerate the promotion of Taiwan’s international tourism, the KMT government published Tourism in Taiwan (1966–1974), one of the most important official tourism magazines. In contrast to all its short-lived predecessors, Tourism in Taiwan mainly targeted one particular group of international visitors – i.e. the American servicemen who came under the American R&R (rest and recuperation) program between 1965 and 1972. Through careful reading of Tourism in Taiwan, this chapter reflects on the complex power relations between its many ‘authors’ in this nation-branding process and also considers how American taste and Cold War order was embedded in the building, (re)imaging, and construction of the island’s ‘tourability.
Imaging National Landscape: Yushan, modern myth and identity in post-war Taiwan
No full textThe chapter examines the construction of a national landscape and the invention of a mythical origin for the islanders. As part of Taiwan’s nation-building project, a campaign was launched in 2001 to popularise Yushan (the highest mountain in East Asia) as a “sacred mountain” and to construct the Taiwanese as “children of Yushan.” The repositioning of Yushan (and, by extension, Taiwan) serves to remove the island from a China-centric framework and locates it instead within an Asia-pacific context. Metaphorically, the mountain has become a “site of resistance,” and has been transformed from a simple geographical feature into a representation of Taiwanese origins, an ancestral home, and the wellspring of a long-forgotten identity. In doing so, this construction of a “sacred mountain” functions not only to nationalise landscape,but also to naturalise Taiwan independence
De la taiwanisation à la dé-sinisation
No full textChang Bi-Yu, Ruiz-Lescot Nicolas. De la taiwanisation à la dé-sinisation. In: Perspectives chinoises, n°85, 2004. pp. 38-49
A new species of Thismia (Thismiaceae) from Yunnan, China
No full textLi, Hong-Qing, Bi, Yu-Ke (2013): A new species of Thismia (Thismiaceae) from Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa 105 (1): 25-28, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.105.1.4, URL: https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/210aebcf-024c-35c9-bb39-822d1259abc6
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