1. Censorship and Publication Control in Early Post-War Taiwan: Procedures and Practices
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Táňa Dluhošová
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Sociology of literature ,Sociology and Political Science ,statuary regulation ,Public administration ,act ,ddc:070 ,case study ,Presentation ,State (polity) ,political control ,0601 history and archaeology ,Gesetz ,Medienrecht ,media_common ,Social Sciences ,Sociology ,Taiwan ,censorship ,Publication Law ,control of press ,sociology of literature ,Kuomintang ,05 social sciences ,politische Kontrolle ,Censorship ,state machinery ,06 humanities and the arts ,post-war period ,Publishing ,General Economics, Econometrics and Finance ,sociocultural factors ,China ,Fallstudie ,media_common.quotation_subject ,0507 social and economic geography ,soziokulturelle Faktoren ,Media Politics, Information Politics, Media Law ,exploration ,Medienpolitik, Informationspolitik, Medienrecht ,media law ,050701 cultural studies ,Power (social and political) ,Politics ,Nachkriegszeit ,Political science ,Zensur ,News media, journalism, publishing ,060101 anthropology ,business.industry ,Staatsapparat ,politischer Akteur ,political actor ,Political Science and International Relations ,Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen ,gesetzliche Regelung ,business - Abstract
This article explores how state institutions and party organs of the Kuomintang used various means of exercising power and projecting authority in order to shape the literary scene and literary production in Taiwan during the early post-war period (1945–1949). Censorship is examined from two complementary perspectives. First, integrating the Taiwanese case into a broader political and social context, the presentation focuses on the legal framework of the publishing law of Republican China and on regulations propagated in local official bulletins. Second, the article analyses censorship as a practice and set of procedures. This second part is based on the archival files of Taiwan Historica, which holds official documents from both early post-war governments. The archival material unveils some of the motivations behind censorship practices, and helps us to understand chosen strategies to legitimise sociocultural norms.
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- 2018
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