The Minor Arts of Daily Life : Popular Culture in Taiwan /
The Minor Arts of Daily Life : Popular Culture in Taiwan /
ed. by David K. Jordan, Marc L. Moskowitz, Andrew D. Morris.
- 1 online resource (288 p.) : illus.
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780824827373 9780824864866
10.1515/9780824864866 doi
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
HN747.5 ǂb M56 2004eb
306/.095124/9
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780824827373 9780824864866
10.1515/9780824864866 doi
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
HN747.5 ǂb M56 2004eb
306/.095124/9