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The Minor Arts of Daily Life
Popular Culture in Taiwan
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The Minor Arts of Daily Life
Popular Culture in Taiwan
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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
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Yes, you can access The Minor Arts of Daily Life by David K. Jordan, Andrew D. Morris, Marc L. Moskowitz in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Popular Culture. We have over 1.5 million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.