Introduction -- Trauma and Taiwan's melodrama: Seven orphans of Cape numbers 7 -- Island's irony: virtual pilgrimage circum-Taiwan in Search of the high Cs -- Mazu's touch, Taiwan nezha, and crying -- Globalization's bottom: subtitle and switch in Wang Yu-Lin's Taiwanese dialect films -- Wet umbrella from Asian film to the White snake -- Hyde-and-seek in Asian diaspora: Deann Borshay Liem's Negative and Ang Lee's Ventriloquy -- Sold mountain: Chinese-language films on Shangri-la -- Nestle in Shalu -- Taiwan's English education: A fish with three heads -- The fate of accidental Taiwanese: 5 ways to leave your father -- Coda: China laying golden eggs
Summary
Explores the affective toll of Taiwan's geographical and political proximity to China through a critical analysis of contemporary Taiwanese film and culture. It examines the complex, precarious relationship between the sovereign state of Taiwan and China in order to consider what this might mean global anxiety around the growing power of China
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-194) and index
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