The desire of the people of Taiwan and Hong Kong to exercise democratic self-rule, fully embody their local identities, and become global citizens challenges the big-power politics between China and the United States. Occupying a critical stance on the margins, the local perspectives and international relations of these two cosmopolitan and postcolonial societies challenge both narratives centered on China and those focused on the U.S.China power struggle. Taking a culture-centered approach to the communicative process of glocalized resistance in an era of rising nationalisms, the chapters in this volume address topics ranging from the rhetoric of political leaders and the language games of mass protesters on social media to resistant street performance.
The desire of the people of Taiwan and Hong Kong to exercise democratic self-rule, fully embody their local identities, and become global citizens challenges the big-power politics between China and the United States. Occupying a critical stance on the margins, the local perspectives and international relations of these two cosmopolitan and postcolonial societies challenge both narratives centered on China and those focused on the U.S.China power struggle. Taking a culture-centered approach to the communicative process of glocalized resistance in an era of rising nationalisms, the chapters in this volume address topics ranging from the rhetoric of political leaders and the language games of mass protesters on social media to resistant street performance. These chapters showcase the geocultural identity-in-the-making of the Taiwanese and Hong Kong people and offer insights into societies under imminent threat by an aggressive neighbor.
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PART 1 Resistance in Taiwan |
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Existence as Resistance: President Tsai Ing-wen's Transformative Rhetoric of Marronage |
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Beyond Critique and Conspiracy: COVID Memes as Reparative Practices in Digital Taiwan |
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Excavating Truth: Assessing Citizen-Led Fact-Checking Practices in Taiwan |
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Vernacular Collaboration: In Search of a New Taiwanese Identity through "Worshipping Japan" and Resisting China |
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PART 2 Resistance in Hong Kong |
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Not Yet the Endgame: A Reflection on the Tactic of Laam Caau in the Anti-Extradition Movement in Hong Kong |
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Public Transportation as a Vehicle of Resistance against the Mainlandization of Hong Kong |
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Glocal Consumer Identity as Political Resistance during the Hong Kong Extradition Bill Protests |
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Discourses of National Identity in Hong Kong: Examining Media Coverage of Carrie Lam's Leadership |
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A Conversation with Taiwan's Minister of Digital Affairs Audrey Tang on Communication, Technology, Identity, and Democracy |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Contributors |
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Hsin-I Cheng is associate professor in the Department of Communication at Santa Clara University. Chengs work appears in the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, International Journal of Communication, Western Journal of Communication, and Women & Language. Her first book, Culturing Interface: Identity, Communication, and Chinese Transnationalism, received the 2009 Outstanding Book Award from National Communication Associations (NCA) International and Intercultural Communication Division. The book is a critical ethnography unpacking several Taiwanese and Chinese communities living and working on the U.S.Mexico border. In 2021, she published her second book, Cultivating Membership in Taiwan and Beyond: Relational Citizenship. In this work, Cheng develops a theoretical concept derived from Taiwanese experiences, and shows its application to citizenship development in other cultural contexts.
Hsin-i Sydney Yueh is associate teaching professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Missouri. Her research examines how culture shapes communication in various groups and communities. Her book, Identity Politics and Popular Culture in Taiwan: A Sajiao Generation, received the Outstanding Book Award for the International and Intercultural Communication Division at the 2018 National Communication Association (NCA) convention. The earlier version of this book was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Language and Social Interaction Division at the 2013 NCA conference. Yuehs research has been published in NCA journals, such as Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, and Critical Studies of Media Communication, in addition to specialty journals focusing on East Asia, China, and Taiwan. Yueh was the recipient of a Taiwan Fellowship in 2021 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan.
