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The Minor Arts of Daily Life : Popular Culture in Taiwan / David K. Jordan, Andrew D. Morris, Marc L. Moskowitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--Taiwan.
- Popular culture.
- Taiwan--Social conditions--2000-.
- Taiwan.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2004]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Minor Arts of Daily Life is an account of the many ways in which contemporary Taiwanese approach their ordinary existence and activities. It presents a wide range of aspects of day-to-day living to convey something of the world as experienced by the Taiwanese themselves.Contributors: Alice Chu, Chien-Juh Gu, David K. Jordan, Paul R. Katz, Chin-Ju Lin, Andrew D. Morris, Marc L. Moskowitz, Scott Simon, Shuenn-Der Yu.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-268) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9780824864866
- 0824864867
- OCLC:
- 607762584
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