Street-naming and the Subjectivity of Taiwan: A Case Study of Taipei City

Street-naming and the Subjectivity of Taiwan: A Case Study of Taipei City

Taiwan has been ruled by a variety of political regimes and the different ruling elites have used Taiwan’s place names to shape their symbolic landscape. The end of World War Two witnessed the most tremendous change of place names in Taiwan when the Chinese Nationalist government or Kuomintang (KMT)...

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Main Author: Wenchuan Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) 2011-12-01
Series:Asian Studies
Subjects:
street names
toponymy
symbolic landscape
subjectivity of Taiwan
Online Access:https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/as/article/view/2879

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