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9780824827373

The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan

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  • ISBN13:

    9780824827373

  • ISBN10:

    0824827376

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-03-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

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Table of Contents

Preface vii
PART I Background
A HISTORY TROUBLED AND GLORIOUS
1. Taiwan's History
3(32)
An Introduction
ANDREW D. MORRIS
PART II Religion and Ritual
THE CELEBRATION OF BELIEF AND DOUBT
2. Fowl Play
35(15)
Chicken-Beheading Rituals and Dispute Resolution in Taiwan
PAUL R. KATZ
3. Pop in Hell
50(17)
Chinese Representations of Purgatory in Taiwan
DAVID K. JORDAN
PART III An Emerging Public Sphere
SAYING NOW WHAT COULD NOT BE SAID BEFORE
4. From Hidden Kingdom to Rainbow Community
67(22)
The Making of Gay and Lesbian Identity in Taiwan
SCOTT SIMON
5. Taiwan's Mass-Mediated Crisis Discourse
89(22)
Pop Politics in an Era of Political TV Call-in Shows
ALICE R. CHU
PART IV Economic Life
MONEY AND MEANING
6. The Other Woman in Your Home
111(18)
Social and Racial Discourses on "Foreign Maids" in Taiwan
CHIN-JU LIN
7. Hot and Noisy
129(21)
Taiwan's Night Market Culture
SHUENN-DER YU
8. Disciplined Bodies in Direct Selling
150(25)
Amway and Alternative Economic Culture in Taiwan
CHIEN-JUH GU
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
175(29)
ANDREW D. MORRIS
10. Yang-Sucking She-Demons
204(15)
Penetration, Fear of Castration, and Other Freudian Angst in Modern Chinese Cinema
MARC L. MOSKOWITZ
Notes 219(18)
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations 237(4)
Glossary of Characters 241(6)
References 247(22)
Contributors 269(2)
Index 271

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