Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, Fifties-Nineteen Eighties

Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, Fifties–Nineteen Eighties
Edited by Chen Shuxia and Olivier Krischer
Published by Australian Centre on China within the World, 2025
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Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, Fifties–Nineteen Eighties explores 4 transformative a long time of images in Taiwan, tracing its evolution amid the island’s emergence from Japanese colonialism and integration into Nationalist regime, largely underneath martial regulation (1949–87). Through a dozen richly illustrated essays and interviews, the ebook bridges the hole between vigorous Chinese-language scholarship on images in Taiwan and its restricted illustration in English. Essays on photographers within the Fifties–60s, together with Long Chin-San (Lang Jingshan), Deng Nan-Guang, Chang Chao-Tang, Liu An-Ming, Huang Pai-Chi, Hsu Yuan-Fu and Tsai Hui-Feng, reveal images’s pivotal position in documenting ‘local’ tradition and shaping cultural identification, whereas difficult concepts of ‘amateur’ and ‘realist’ practices and recognising the significance of transnational connections. Meanwhile, essays on Hsu Jen-Shiu, Lin Bo-Liang, Kao Chung-Li, Lien Hui-Ling and Hou Tsung-Hui, together with interviews sharing the firsthand experiences of Liu Chen-Hsiang, Lulu Shur-tzy Hou and Yao Jui-Chung, spotlight the expertise of images in Seventies–80s Taiwan, as each witness and agent of social transformation, addressing points resembling environmental safety, psychological well being and gender politics, in addition to being a vital automobile for the transdisciplinary nature of latest artwork, theatre, cinema and efficiency in Taiwan at the moment.