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Popular Culture in Taiwan

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Popular Culture in Taiwan book

Charismatic Modernity

Popular Culture in Taiwan

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Popular Culture in Taiwan book

Charismatic Modernity
Edited ByMarc Moskowitz
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2010
eBook Published 15 August 2010
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203842072
Pages 208
eBook ISBN 9780203842072
Subjects Area Studies, Social Sciences
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Moskowitz, M. (Ed.). (2010). Popular Culture in Taiwan: Charismatic Modernity (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203842072

ABSTRACT

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, pop music, 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

chapter 1|22 pages

Introduction: The power of the popular

ByMARC L. MOSKOWITZ

part |2 pages

Part I Remembering history: Seeing the present

chapter 2|27 pages

1970s–1980s “Chinese” Little League Baseball and its discontents

ByANDREW MORRIS

chapter 3|13 pages

The road to industrialization: Chinese realism in Taiwan and the People’s Republic

ByKRISTA VAN FLEIT HANG

chapter 4|21 pages

From literature to lingerie: Classical Chinese poetry in Taiwan’s popular culture

ByJOSEPH R. ALLEN

chapter 5|19 pages

Nomadic ethnoscapes in the changing global–local pop music industry: ICRT as IC

ByALLEN CHUN

part |2 pages

Part II Embracing modernity: Exploring new ethnoscapes

chapter 6|24 pages

How subways and high speed railways have changed Taiwan: Transportation technology, urban culture, and social life

ByANRU LEE AND CHIEN-HUNG TUNG

chapter 7|18 pages

Substance, masculinity, and class: Betel nut consumption and embarrassing modernity in Taiwan

ByLUCIA HUWY-MIN LIU

chapter 8|18 pages

BL/Q: The aesthetics of Pili puppetry fan fiction

ByTERI SILVIO

chapter 9|14 pages

From warlocks to Aryans: The slippery slope of cultural nuance in reading Harry Potter in Taiwan

ByMARC L. MOSKOWITZ
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