Popular culture in Taiwan : charismatic modernity
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Popular culture in Taiwan : charismatic modernity
(Routledge research on Taiwan / series editor, Dafydd Fell)
Routledge, 2011
- : hbk
Available at 8 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The growing field of popular culture studies in Taiwan can be divided into two distinct academic trends; a different analytical framework is used to examine either locally oriented popular culture or transnational pop culture. This volume combine these two academic trends, firstly by revealing that localized popular culture in Taiwan is in many ways a merging of Chinese, Japanese, American, and indigenous cultures and therefore is a form of hybridity that arose long before the term became popular. Secondly, the chapters show that the transnational character of Taiwan's pop culture is one of the more important ways that it distinguishes itself from mainland China. In other words, it is precisely Taiwan's transnational hybrid character that helps to define it as a distinctive local space.
The contributors explore how traditional Chinese influences modern localized lives in Taiwan, localized identity, culture, and politics as a contested domain with Chinese and traditional Taiwanese identities and Taiwan's localization process as contesting Taiwan's gravitation towards globalized Western culture.
Including chapters on baseball, poetry, puppets and Harry Potter, Popular Culture in Taiwan is an accessible and stimulating read for those studying the culture and society of Taiwan and China as well as cultural studies more generally.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The Power of the Popular Marc L. Moskowitz 2. 1970s-80s 'Chinese' Little League Baseball and its Discontents Andrew Morris 3. Different Roads to Industrialization: Chinese Realism in Taiwan and the People's Republic Krista Van Fleit Hang 4. From Textbooks to Lingerie: Classical Chinese Poetry in Taiwan's Popular Culture Joseph R. Allen 5. Nomadic Ethnoscapes in the Changing Global-Local Pop Music Industry: ICRT as IC Allen Chun 6. How Subways and High Speed Railways Have Changed Taiwan: Transportation Technology, Urban Culture, and Social Life Anru Lee and Chien-hung Tung 7. Contradicting Modernities: Consuming Betel Nut in Taiwan Lucia Huwy-min Liu 8. Wuxia Ethics and Cute Sprouts: Masculine and Feminine Modes of Engagement with the Pili Puppetry Serials Teri Silvio 9. From Warlocks to Aryans: The Slippery Slope of Cultural Nuance in Reading Harry Potter in Taiwan Marc L. Moskowitz
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