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Post-Colonization of Desire: Flesh of Mountains and Coasts and Gaze of the Queer
In the past half-century of cultural development in Taiwan, “Indigenous peoples” have often been the object of desire for mainstream ethnic groups. “Desire” in this case is of course intertwined with complex scenarios (and sentiments?): it involves the mechanisms of governance of the modern state, and at the minimum, it seeps into the intimate structures of emotion and desire, with various enigmatic twists.