LIRE À TAIWAN, FOISONNEMENT ET FRAGILITÉS

Abstract

This article proposes to examine the development of the publishing sector in Taiwan and the historical, political, linguistic and economic challenges that it has had to overcome and still has to overcome in order to create spaces for the sharing of texts, literary or not. Although the foundations of an autonomous space for literary transmission were laid during Japanese colonization and then under the authoritarian Kuomintang government, despite
censorship, the Taiwanese publishing sector only really took off with democratization in the 1990s and 2000s, in parallel with the emergence of a diverse and active civil society. While the economic development of the country and the generalized increase in the level of education have favored attitudes favorable to reading, the digitization of cultural practices reveals fragilities partly linked to the ruptures and traumas of Taiwanese history.