Making Literary Reputations in China and Taiwan: The Case of Lin Yutang
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2025.2562508" target="_blank" >10.1080/10357823.2025.2562508</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Making Literary Reputations in China and Taiwan: The Case of Lin Yutang
Original language description
This article aims to explore how and why the literary reputation of Lin Yutang has changed in China and Taiwan from 1949 to the present day. To achieve this, a comparative approach is adopted to bring out the competing nature of the relations between the two culturally connected yet politically separated entities where Lin’s reputation fluctuated due to a seesaw effect. I argue that, in the vortex of cross-Strait relations, literary reputations are a product of a top-down pyramid mechanism where political ideology at the apex sways or controls subordinate components such as language, literature, culture, and historiography. Processed through this mechanism, authors are assigned a position at the bottom, either included or excluded, dishonoured or canonised. The article finds that Lin’s reputation hinges on the extent to which his international fame, ideas, and actual words can be appropriated, adapted, and manipulated to endorse a national initiative focused on fostering nationalism and patriotism. This finding highlights the dynamics of self and other that are threaded through the imaginative process of Chinese or Taiwanese national identity, each imagining itself initi-ally and predominantly against the other, and subsequently and additionally against culturally distinct others on the global map.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Asian Studies Review
ISSN
1035-7823
e-ISSN
1467-8403
Volume of the periodical
2025
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6.10.2025
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
1-18
UT code for WoS article
001587573200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105018790026