Book review: Taiwan in global contextThis book contains much interesting material on literature, food, travel and cinema. The former is the author of Colonial Taiwan: Negotiating Identities and Modernity through Literature, while the latter wrote Place, Identity and National Imagination in Post-war Taiwan. Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context Being And Becoming Edited Pei-yin Lin and Bei-yo ChangEach editor contributes an item to this book, Lin on the topic as a whole (the introductory chapter), Chang on tourism to Taiwan in a chapter called “From ‘free China’ to sunny paradise.”The book takes its place in Routledge’s Research on Taiwan series. In this context Taiwan is seen as the female being approached by a hard-bitten Hong Kong male. In “Translating Taiwan southward” Adam Lifshey points to the largely neglected strait between Taiwan and the Philippines, and the relationship between Taiwan and its southern neighbor.
