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  • The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan
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  • edited by David K. Jordan, Andrew D. Morris, and Marc L. Moskowitz
  • 2004
  • Published by: University of Hawai'i Press
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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.

Table of Contents

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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Part I: Background: A History Troubled and Glorious
  1. 1. Taiwan’s History: An Introduction
  2. pp. 3-32
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  1. Part II: Religion and Ritual: The Celebration of Belief and Doubt
  1. 2. Fowl Play: Chicken-Beheading Rituals and Dispute Resolution in Taiwan
  2. pp. 35-49
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  1. 3. Pop in Hell: Chinese Representations of Purgatory in Taiwan
  2. pp. 50-63
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  1. Part III: An Emerging Public Sphere: Saying Now What Could Not Be Said Before
  1. 4. From Hidden Kingdom to Rainbow Community: The Making of Gay and Lesbian Identity in Taiwan
  2. pp. 67-88
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  1. 5. Taiwan’s Mass-Mediated Crisis Discourse: Pop Politics in an Era of Political TV Call-in Shows
  2. pp. 89-108
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  1. Part IV: Economic Life: Money and Meaning
  1. 6. The Other Woman in Your Home: Social and Racial Discourses on “Foreign Maids” in Taiwan
  2. pp. 111-128
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  1. 7. Hot and Noisy: Taiwan’s Night Market Culture
  2. pp. 129-149
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  1. 8. Disciplined Bodies in Direct Selling: Amway and Alternative Economic Culture in Taiwan
  2. pp. 150-172
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  1. Part V: Entertainment and the Audience: Living for the Moment and Moments for the Living
  1. 9. Baseball, History, the Local and the Global in Taiwan
  2. pp. 175-203
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  1. 10. Yang-Sucking She-Demons: Penetration, Fear of Castration, and Other Freudian Angst in Modern Chinese Cinema
  2. pp. 204-218
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 219-236
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  1. Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
  2. pp. 237-240
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  1. Glossary of Characters
  2. pp. 241-246
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  1. References
  2. pp. 247-268
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 269-270
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 271-278
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