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Reorientating Taiwan: Ocean, Selfhood, and the Pacific
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Reorientating Taiwan: Ocean, Selfhood, and the Pacific redefines how you see Taiwan, moving beyond land-centred perspective to embrace its deep connection with the Pacific. This interdisciplinary collection takes you on a journey through anthropology, literature, ecology, and art, revealing Taiwan as a cradle of Austronesian expansion and a hub of oceanic entanglements. You’ll discover how Taiwan’s vibrant marine culture influences its identity, from Indigenous traditions to contemporary environmental activism. This book invites you to explore Taiwan’s cultural and ecological narratives in a way that is both profound and transformative.
Niki J.P. Alsford is Professor of Anthropology and Human Geography, and Director for the Institutes for the Study of the Asia Pacific (ISAP), and the Institute for Area and Migration Studies (AMIS) at the University of Central Lancashire. He is a Research Associate at the Centre of Taiwan Studies at SOAS and an Associate Member of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford. Alsford's research focuses primarily on Taiwan, Korea, and the Pacific Islands. He is the book series editor for the Taiwan series at Brill, the Korean series at Routledge, and a new series on Asia Pacific Cultures, Communities, and Landscapes at Palgrave Macmillan. He is the author of Taiwan Lives: A Socio-Political History, published by the University of Washington Press in 2024.
Ti-han Chang is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Asia Pacific Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. Her research focuses on contemporary eco-literature and postcolonial studies in Taiwan and the wider region of Asia Pacific. She has published a number of articles, reviews and translations in the relevant fields. She is also the co-editor of A Transdisciplinary Study of Global Mobilities: Identities on the Move (Springer, 2025).
Ti-han Chang is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Asia Pacific Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. Her research focuses on contemporary eco-literature and postcolonial studies in Taiwan and the wider region of Asia Pacific. She has published a number of articles, reviews and translations in the relevant fields. She is also the co-editor of A Transdisciplinary Study of Global Mobilities: Identities on the Move (Springer, 2025).
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction: Reorientating Taiwan as a Pacific Island
Niki J.P. Alsford
1 O Riyar ko Singsi Niyam/The Ocean is Our Teacher
Oceanic Dialogues in Amis Contemporary Art
DJ W. Hatfield
2 The Politics of Cloth
Barkcloth in the Context of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists
Niki J. P. Alsford
3 Topography, Archipelagic Imaginary and Eco-criticism
Three Modalities of Oceanic Writing from Contemporary Taiwan
Pei-yin Lin
4 Translate the Sea
Oceanicity and Decoloniality in Syaman Rapongan’s Works
Gwennaël Gaffric
5 From the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea
Fuyanren and Its Translations into Catalan and Italian
Antonio Paoliello-Palermo and Mireia Vargas-Urpí
6 Oceans and Isles in Contemporary Taiwanese Comics
Environment, Art, and Identity
Norbert Danysz
7 The Oceanic Turn in Taiwan’s Environmental Discourse
Issues of Marine Ecosystem in Two Taiwanese Activist Eco-documentaries
Kuei-fen Chiu and Hsing-juh Lin
8 Oceanic Nodes of Entanglement
Taiwan in a Meshwork of Human-Avian Lives
Scott E. Simon
9 Entanglements between the Land and the Sea
The Case of Tao People and their More-than-Liquid Identity
Julien Laporte
10 “Those Fishes have Ph.D.”
The Interactions between Reef Fishes and Underwater Spearfishing Men among Amis People in Taiwan
Futuru C. L. Tsai
Reflection: Pacific Cetaceans and the Oceanic Turn in Taiwan
Hung-chi Liao (translated by Ti-han Chang)
Conclusion: Framing an Oceanic Narrative for Taiwan Studies in UK Higher Education and Beyond
Ti-han Chang
Index
List of Contributors
Introduction: Reorientating Taiwan as a Pacific Island
Niki J.P. Alsford
PART 1: New Waves of Ocean Thinking
1 O Riyar ko Singsi Niyam/The Ocean is Our Teacher
Oceanic Dialogues in Amis Contemporary Art
DJ W. Hatfield
2 The Politics of Cloth
Barkcloth in the Context of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists
Niki J. P. Alsford
PART 2: Oceanic Writing and Translation in Literature
3 Topography, Archipelagic Imaginary and Eco-criticism
Three Modalities of Oceanic Writing from Contemporary Taiwan
Pei-yin Lin
4 Translate the Sea
Oceanicity and Decoloniality in Syaman Rapongan’s Works
Gwennaël Gaffric
5 From the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea
Fuyanren and Its Translations into Catalan and Italian
Antonio Paoliello-Palermo and Mireia Vargas-Urpí
PART 3: Ocean and Marine Representations in Art and Media
6 Oceans and Isles in Contemporary Taiwanese Comics
Environment, Art, and Identity
Norbert Danysz
7 The Oceanic Turn in Taiwan’s Environmental Discourse
Issues of Marine Ecosystem in Two Taiwanese Activist Eco-documentaries
Kuei-fen Chiu and Hsing-juh Lin
PART 4: Oceanic Entanglements: Encounter of the Human and Nonhuman Worlds
8 Oceanic Nodes of Entanglement
Taiwan in a Meshwork of Human-Avian Lives
Scott E. Simon
9 Entanglements between the Land and the Sea
The Case of Tao People and their More-than-Liquid Identity
Julien Laporte
10 “Those Fishes have Ph.D.”
The Interactions between Reef Fishes and Underwater Spearfishing Men among Amis People in Taiwan
Futuru C. L. Tsai
Reflection: Pacific Cetaceans and the Oceanic Turn in Taiwan
Hung-chi Liao (translated by Ti-han Chang)
Conclusion: Framing an Oceanic Narrative for Taiwan Studies in UK Higher Education and Beyond
Ti-han Chang
Index
The book will be of interest to Taiwan Studies scholars and academic institutes, including the European Association of Taiwan Studies, North American Taiwan Studies Association, and Australasian Taiwan Studies Association, among others. It will also appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as libraries at institutions such as SOAS, Oxford, University of Texas Austin, UCLA, Nottingham, and UCLan's Asia Pacific Studies program.