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1. National Glory and Traumatism: National/cultural identity construction of National Palace Museum in Taiwan.

Author

Huang, Yi-Chih

Subjects
TAIWANESE national character, IDENTITY (Psychology) in architecture, EMOTIONAL trauma, NATIONALISM & collective memory, CHINA-Taiwan relations
Abstract

This paper examines two Taiwan projects: the National Palace Museum (1965) in Taipei (NPM) and the NPM Southern Branch (NPMSB) in Chiayi (2003). The NPMSB targeted the liberalisation of the NPM from the stained political connotation of Chinese nationalism and constructs anew Taiwan's autonomous national identity. This paper argues that the construction of NPM/NPMSB in Taiwan is a cultural and colonial traumatism of national identity, and a struggle between official Chinese nationalism and rising prior Taiwanese subjectivity in a postcolonial context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2012
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