By Ming-Yan Lai
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11 Out of this discursive opening emerged different attempts to reposition East Asia and renarrativize cultural identity in capitalist modernity by various interested parties across the Pacific, including the media, policy and public opinion makers, and academics in the West, as well as the ideological apparatuses of the East Asian states and local intellectuals. In particular, the possibility of an East Asian modernity inflected with indigenous values and its challenge to dominant universalist conceptions of modernity became subjects of intense intellectual and policy debates in the United States no less than in East Asia.
Or is the native pitted against the hegemony and domination of Western culture, expressing a primary concern with modernization as Westernization that leaves the social and political-economic impacts of capitalist transformation and their relation to everyday life and cultural experiences unexamined and uncritiqued? How is the native positioned and local differences aligned vis-à-vis the perceived domination? What social categories are the differences mapped onto? Is the native identified with the nation?
From sharp depictions of the exploitative working conditions of laborers in foreign-operated factories and the dislocation and oppression suffered by migrant workers from rural villages to parodic and satiric representations of the corruption and decadence of urban life dominated by the consumption of imported goods and Western lifestyles, as well as the degradation of native intellectuals caught in the ruthless operations of global capitalism and forced into guiding sex tours and 41 42 Nativism and Modernity pimping hometown girls for Japanese businessmen, nativist literature vividly exposed the underbelly of the post/modern beast of capitalist development in Taiwan.