The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan 9780824864866
The Minor Arts of Daily Life is an account of the many ways in which contemporary Taiwanese approach their ordinary exis
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English Pages 288 Year 2004
Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
part I: Background a history troubled and glorious
1. Taiwan’s History: An Introduction
2. Fowl Play: Chicken-Beheading Rituals and Dispute Resolution in Taiwan
3. Pop in Hell : Representations of Purgatory in Taiwan
part III: An Emerging Public Sphere: saying now what could not be said before
4. From Hidden Kingdom to Rainbow Community: The Making of Gay and Lesbian Identity in Taiwan
5. Taiwan’s Mass-Mediated Crisis Discourse: Pop Politics in an Era of Political TV Call-in Shows
part IV Economic Life: money and meaning
6. The Other Woman in Your Home: Social and Racial Discourses on “Foreign Maids” in Taiwan
7. Hot and Noisy: Taiwan’s Night Market Culture
8. Disciplined Bodies in Direct Selling: Amway and Alternative Economic Culture in Taiwan
part V: Entertainment and the Audience: living for the moment and moments for the living
9. Baseball, History, the Local and the Global in Taiwan
10. Yang-Sucking She-Demons: Penetration, Fear of Castration, and Other Freudian Angst in Modern Chinese Cinema
Notes
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
Glossary of Characters
References
Contributors
Index
Contents
Preface
part I: Background a history troubled and glorious
1. Taiwan’s History: An Introduction
2. Fowl Play: Chicken-Beheading Rituals and Dispute Resolution in Taiwan
3. Pop in Hell : Representations of Purgatory in Taiwan
part III: An Emerging Public Sphere: saying now what could not be said before
4. From Hidden Kingdom to Rainbow Community: The Making of Gay and Lesbian Identity in Taiwan
5. Taiwan’s Mass-Mediated Crisis Discourse: Pop Politics in an Era of Political TV Call-in Shows
part IV Economic Life: money and meaning
6. The Other Woman in Your Home: Social and Racial Discourses on “Foreign Maids” in Taiwan
7. Hot and Noisy: Taiwan’s Night Market Culture
8. Disciplined Bodies in Direct Selling: Amway and Alternative Economic Culture in Taiwan
part V: Entertainment and the Audience: living for the moment and moments for the living
9. Baseball, History, the Local and the Global in Taiwan
10. Yang-Sucking She-Demons: Penetration, Fear of Castration, and Other Freudian Angst in Modern Chinese Cinema
Notes
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
Glossary of Characters
References
Contributors
Index
- Author / Uploaded
- David K. Jordan (editor)
- Andrew D. Morris (editor)
- Marc L. Moskowitz (editor)
