Confronting the other, defining a self : Hsiang-t'u literature and the emergence of a Taiwanese nationalism
Toward the postmodern : Taiwanese new cinema and alternative visions of nation
Remembering and forgetting, part I: history, memory, and the autobiographical impulse
Remembering and forgetting, part II : Hou Hsiao-hsien's Taiwan trilogy
Language and nationhood : culture as social contestation
The country and the city : modernization and changing apprehensions of space and time
Exile, displacement, and shifting identities : globalization and the frontiers of cultural hybridity
Conclusion : from nation to dissemi-nation : postmodern hybridization and changing conditions for the representation of identity.