Making Literary Reputations in China and Taiwan: The Case of Lin Yutang

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Making Literary Reputations in China and Taiwan: The Case of Lin Yutang

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Making Literary Reputations in China and Taiwan: The Case of Lin Yutang

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Asian Studies Review

ISSN

1035-7823

e-ISSN

1467-8403

Svazek periodika

2025

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

6.10.2025

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

1-18

Kód UT WoS článku

001587573200001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105018790026