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1、RemappingTaiwan:HistoriesandCulturesintheContextofGlobalizationTheFifthAnnualConferenceontheHistoryandCultureofTaiwanUCLA,October12-15,2000Draftonly;noquotationplease!CinematicRempapingofTaipei:CulturalHybridization,Heterotopias,andPostmodernityYingjinZhang(IndianaUniversity)SummaryBywayofobservingc
2、hangesinthecinematicremappingofTaipeiinthe1990s,thispaperattemptstoextendourunderstandingofthisglobalcitybeyondJamesonstropeofmodernization.AsinJamesonsfamouspiece,IwillstartwithadiscussionofdirectorEdwardYang,butIwillrecontextualizeYangsrecentfilmsinglobalculturalhybridization.Tobettersituaterecent
3、cinematicchanges,IwillalsomentioncertainearlyfilmssetinTaipei.Generallyspeaking,wemaydistinguishthreephasesofcinematicmappingsofTaipei.First,inthe1960sand1970s,thecitywasconfiguredasaniconofurbanmodernitysoastosupporttheNationalistgovernmentsdrivetobuildTaiwanaspartofamodernChinesenation.Second,inth
4、e1980s,TaipeiwasrefiguredinNewTaiwanCinemaasasiteofdistinctTaiwanexperience,asiteofculturalhybridizationwheretheChineseisshowntobemerelyoneamongmanycompetingculturalforcesintheformationofTaiwanidentity.Third,innew1urbanfilmsofthe1990s,theearlierfocusonTaiwangraduallyfaded,andTaipeihasbeentransfigure
5、dasaseriesofheterotopia,s,whereawiderangeofpostmodernspacesare(re)imaginedand(re)negotiated.ThechangefromChinatoTaiwantoTaipeiincinematicfigurationsofTaipeiseemstodovetailthegeneralmovementfrommodernizationandnationalizationtoglobalizationandhybridizationintheageoftransnationalcapitalism.ButwhetherT
6、aiwancanbeadequatelydescribedasapostnationalstateisaquestionawaitingfurtherinvestigation.Hybridity,GlobalMélange,andEdwardYang'sRemappingofTaipeiInhisstudyofglobalizationashybridization,JanNederveenPietersesuggests,"wecanconstructacontinuumofhybridities:ononeend,anassimilationisthybriditythatleansov
7、ertowardsthecenter,adoptsthecanonandmimicsthehegemony,and,attheotherend,adestabalizinghybriditythatblursthecanon,reversesthecurrent,subvertsthecenter"(1995,56-7).Inmanyways,EdwardYang'scinematicremapp