Wei-Ping Lin is Professor of Anthropology at National Taiwan University. She has previously held affiliations at the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Materializing Magic Power: Chinese Popular Religion in Villages and Cities (2015) which won the Academia Sinica Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences. She edited Mediating Religion: Music, Image, Object and New Media (2018; in Chinese).
Introduction: Imagining subject
Part I. History of the Matsu Archipelago: 1. Forbidden outpost
2. Becoming a military frontline
3. To leave or to stay?
4. Gambling with the military state
Part II. New Technologies of Imagination: 5. Digital Matsu
6. Online war memory
Part III. Fantasia of the Future: 7. Women and families in transition
8. Community materialized through temple building
9. Novel religious practices as imaginative works
10. A dream of an 'Asian Mediterranean'
Conclusion: Becoming ourselves.
