This book examines modern Taiwanese culture through the prism of global cultural interactions. Challenging the view of Taiwan as a product of transience and displacement, it highlights Taiwan's subjectivity, viewing the island as a site of a global development that epitomizes both resistance and negotiation in the process of cultural flows.

Introduction Part 1: Repositioning Taiwan 1. Positioning 'Taiwanese Literature' to the World: Taiwan as Represented and Perceived in English Translation 2. Translating Taiwan Southward 3. It All Starts in Hualien: Pangcah Woman, Rose, Rose, I Love You, and The Man with the Compound Eyes 4. The Making of Taiwanese Martial Arts Fiction: The Case of Gu Long 5. Indiginizing Queer Fiction and Queer Theories: A Study on Chi Ta-wei's Sci-Fi Novels Part 2: Cultural Flows and Becoming 6. From 'Free China' to Sunny Paradise: The Worlding Process in the Magazine Tourism in Taiwan (1966~1974) 7. The Paradise of Gourmets: Representing Taiwanese Cuisine in Japanese Tourist Media (1964-) 8. Savage World, Immortal Island: The Colonial Gaze and Colonial Taste of Penglai Rice 9. Let's Talk About Love: Hong Kong's Geopolitical Narratives of Emotion and Stories of Lifestyle Migration in Taiwan 10. Getting to Know Taiwan: Borrowed Gaze, Direct Involvement and Everyday Life 11. Localizing the Japanese Manga System and Making Folk Religion Manga-esque: Wei Zongcheng's Ming Zhan-lu: Final Destiny of the Formosan Gods 12. Charting the Transnational within the National: The Case of Contemporary Taiwan Popular Cinema 13. Countervisions: Exotic Voyages in the work of Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang 14. Taiwan's Indigenous Peoples and Cinema: From Mascot to Fourth Cinema?