Popular Culture in Taiwan

Charismatic Modernity
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-415-58263-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

Reihe: Routledge Research on Taiwan Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moskowitz, Marc L.

Moskowitz, Marc

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Marc L. Moskowitz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina and the Visual Anthropology Review Editor for the American Anthropologist.