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  • 9 - Novel Religious Practices as Imaginative Works

  • from Part III - Fantasia of the Future
  • Wei-Ping Lin, National Taiwan University
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    Island Fantasia
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    24 September 2021
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    07 October 2021, pp 205-229
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  • Summary

    This chapter discusses the newly invented religious practices that are the imaginary reconstitutions of cross-strait realities. I consider that the significances of these new rituals, myths, and material practices rests not on whether they succeed, but rather on the subjectivity they convey when people are faced with predicaments; they mediate social relations, rescale regional interactions, and forge possible developments for the islands in the future.

  • 8 - Community Materialized through Temple Building

  • from Part III - Fantasia of the Future
  • Wei-Ping Lin, National Taiwan University
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    Island Fantasia
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    07 October 2021, pp 180-204
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    This chapter probes how old, conflicted, and fragmented social units in an island settlement came to be integrated after the era of military control ended, and how they formed a new community through the process of temple building.

  • Part III - Fantasia of the Future

  • Wei-Ping Lin, National Taiwan University
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    Island Fantasia
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    07 October 2021, pp 167-265
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  • Abbreviations

  • Wei-Ping Lin, National Taiwan University
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    Island Fantasia
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    07 October 2021, pp xvii-xviii
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  • Part I - History of the Matsu Archipelago

  • Wei-Ping Lin, National Taiwan University
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    07 October 2021, pp 29-108
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  • 2 - Becoming a Military Frontline

  • from Part I - History of the Matsu Archipelago
  • Wei-Ping Lin, National Taiwan University
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    07 October 2021, pp 49-67
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    In 1949, the Nationalist army abruptly arrived in Matsu and indelibly changed the fate of the islands. This chapter analyzes how military rule dramatically transformed the lives of the local people from a spatial perspective.

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  • Wei-Ping Lin, National Taiwan University
  • Book:
    Island Fantasia
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    24 September 2021
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    07 October 2021, pp xv-xvi
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  • 5 - Digital Matsu

  • from Part II - New Technologies of Imagination
  • Wei-Ping Lin, National Taiwan University
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    Island Fantasia
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    07 October 2021, pp 111-139
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    This chapter discusses how the internet publication, Matsu Online, has exerted unprecedented influence in these islands. Via online media, Matsu has transformed itself from a peripheral archipelago and a Cold War “anticommunist frontline” into a place with its own value and worth.

  • 4 - Gambling with the Military State

  • from Part I - History of the Matsu Archipelago
  • Wei-Ping Lin, National Taiwan University
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    Island Fantasia
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    07 October 2021, pp 91-108
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    This chapter examines gambling from the perspective of Matsu’s ethnography. I locate the Matsu people’s gambling habits in the context of the island’s ecology and society, showing that gambling was embedded in the fishermen’s lives early on. It was elaborated during the warzone administration period to coordinate with and subvert the oppressive and tedious rhythms of a society controlled by the army.

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  • Wei-Ping Lin, National Taiwan University
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    Island Fantasia
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  • 10 - A Dream of an “Asian Mediterranean”

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  • Wei-Ping Lin, National Taiwan University
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    07 October 2021, pp 230-255
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    This chapter analyzes how a Matsu county commissioner attempted to resolve the transportation difficulties of Matsu residents by ushering in a gaming plan proposed by an American venture capitalist—“Mediterranean Asia Casino Resort.” I also present three strikingly different imaginaries of Matsu’s future conceived by three different generations.

  • 6 - Online War Memory

  • from Part II - New Technologies of Imagination
  • Wei-Ping Lin, National Taiwan University
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    Island Fantasia
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    07 October 2021, pp 140-166
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    This chapter focuses on individuals and the ways in which they have undergone transformations in the online world. It examines the popular online writings of Leimengdi, and discusses how online writing became for him a process of subjectification—allowing him to transcend two types of self to become a new imagining subject brimming with morals, emotions, and hopes for the future.

  • Figures, Maps, and Tables

  • Wei-Ping Lin, National Taiwan University
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  • Bibliography

  • Wei-Ping Lin, National Taiwan University
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  • 7 - Women and Families in Transition

  • from Part III - Fantasia of the Future
  • Wei-Ping Lin, National Taiwan University
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    Island Fantasia
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    07 October 2021, pp 169-179
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    This chapter examines the struggles confronted by the women of Matsu. I take three women, born between 1950 and 1980, who lived through the era of military rule and beyond, as examples of the rise of a new female self and for the changing meanings of contemporary family and marriage.

  • Part II - New Technologies of Imagination

  • Wei-Ping Lin, National Taiwan University
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  • Acknowledgements

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  • Of Constitutions, Campaigns and Commissions: A Century of Democratic Centralism under the CCP

  • Patricia M. Thornton
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    The China Quarterly / Volume 248 / Issue S1 / November 2021
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    28 September 2021, pp. 52-72
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    November 2021
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  • Democratic centralism, a hallmark of Leninist party organizations, has played a formative role in the history of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Yet despite being hailed as an “inviolable” and “unchanging” Party principle, understandings of democratic centralism have shifted dramatically over the century of its existence. This study traces the long arc of the concept's evolution across successive Party Constitutions, focusing on three critical historical junctures: the Sixth Party Congress, which formally adopted democratic centralism into its Constitution as an organizational principle; the Seventh Party Congress, which adopted rectification as the Party's practice of democratic centralism; and the 19th Party Congress, which set a new milestone in codifying the system as a disciplinary tool. I argue that while democratic centralism exemplifies the CCP's institutional plasticity and adaptive governance and is critical to understanding Party-driven constitutionalism in contemporary China, it also highlights an irresolvable paradox inherent in Party rule. Adaptability does not necessarily impart resilience. I conclude that the CCP's normatively unconstrained extra-constitutional leadership under Xi Jinping highlights the essentially and increasingly irrationalist aspects of its illiberal governance project.

Island Fantasia
  • Imagining Subjects on the Military Frontline between China and Taiwan
  • Wei-Ping Lin
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    24 September 2021
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    07 October 2021
  • The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule. With the lifting of martial law in 1992, the people were confronted with the question of how to move forward. This in-depth ethnography and social history of the islands focuses on how individual citizens redefined themselves and reimagined their society. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, Wei-Ping Lin shows how islanders used both traditional and new media to cope with the conflicts and trauma of harsh military rule. She discusses the formation of new social imaginaries through the appearance of 'imagining subjects', interrogating their subjectification processes and varied uses of mediating technologies as they seek to answer existential questions. This title is Open Access.

  • Rebuilding Authority: The Party's Relationship with Its Grassroots Organizations

  • Jean Christopher Mittelstaedt
  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 248 / Issue S1 / November 2021
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    23 September 2021, pp. 244-264
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    November 2021
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  • While existing scholarship looks at the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and emerging social strata and civil society, the Party's impact on its own grassroots has been largely overlooked. How does the Party manage its own grassroots members? I argue that the CCP has ritualized its management practices in recent years. Drawing from a dataset of 1,408 “Thematic Party Days” (TPDs) conducted by grassroots Party branches in Beijing, I show how such practices are geared towards integrating ordinary Party members with the Party centre in Beijing and the Party in general. This reflects a major shift in the Party's organizational strategy, moving away from embracing market values and towards reproducing the Party's values and ideology at the grassroots.

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