| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 278 pages) : illustrations |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Taiwan's history : an introduction / Andrew D. Morris -- Fowl play : chicken-beheading rituals and dispute resolution in Taiwan / Paul R. Katz -- Pop in hell : Chinese representations of purgatory in Taiwan / David K. Jordan -- From hidden kingdom to rainbow community : the making of gay and lesbian identity in Taiwan / Scott Simon -- Taiwan's mass-mediated crisis discourse : pop politics in an era of political TV call-in shows / Alice R. Chu -- The other woman in your home : social and racial discourses on "foreign maids" in Taiwan / Chin-Ju Lin -- Hot and noisy : Taiwan's night market culture / Shuenn-Der Yu -- Disciplined bodies in direct selling : Amway and alternative economic culture in Taiwan / Chien-Juh Gu -- Baseball, history, the local and the global in Taiwan / Andrew D. Morris -- Yang-sucking she-demons : penetration, fear of castration, and other Freudian angst in modern Chinese cinema / Marc L. Moskowitz |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-268) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- Taiwan
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Popular culture
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Social conditions
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Massenkultur
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| SUBJECT |
Taiwan -- Social conditions -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003010409
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Taiwan
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Taiwan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jordan, David K., editor.
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Morris, Andrew D., editor.
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Moskowitz, Marc L., editor.
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| LC no. |
2003015330 |
| ISBN |
9780824864866 |
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0824864867 |
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