The Minor Arts of Daily Life
豆瓣
Popular Culture in Taiwan
David K. Jordan / Andrew D. Morris …
简介
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.
目录
Preface
Part I Background
A History Troubled and Glorious
1. Taiwan’s History
An Introduction
Andrew D. Morris
Part II Religion and Ritual
The Celebration of Belief and Doubt
2. Fowl Play
Chicken-Beheading Rituals and Dispute Resolution in Taiwan
Paul R. Katz
3. Pop in Hell
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
The Making of Gay and Lesbian Identity in Taiwan
Scott Simon
5. Taiwan’s Mass-Mediated Crisis Discourse
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
Social and Racial Discourses on "Foreign Maids" in Taiwan
Chin-ju Lin
7. Hot and Noisy
Taiwan’s Night Market Culture
Shuenn-Der Yu
8. Disciplined Bodies in Direct Selling
Amway and Alternative Economic Culture in Taiwan
Chien-Juh Gu
Part V Entertainment and the Audience
Lliving for the Moment and Moments for the Living
9. Baseball, History, the Local and the Global in Taiwan
Andrew D. Morris
10. Yang-Sucking She-Demons
Penetration, Fear of Castration, and
Other Freudian Angst in Modern Chinese Cinema
Marc L. Moskowitz
Notes
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
Glossary of Characters
References
Contributors
Index