Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. part I: Background a history troubled and glorious
5. 1. Taiwan’s History: An Introduction 3
6. 2. Fowl Play: Chicken-Beheading Rituals and Dispute Resolution in Taiwan 35
7. 3. Pop in Hell : Representations of Purgatory in Taiwan 50
8. part III: An Emerging Public Sphere: saying now what could not be said before
9. 4. From Hidden Kingdom to Rainbow Community: The Making of Gay and Lesbian Identity in Taiwan 67
10. 5. Taiwan’s Mass-Mediated Crisis Discourse: Pop Politics in an Era of Political TV Call-in Shows 89
11. part IV Economic Life: money and meaning
12. 6. The Other Woman in Your Home: Social and Racial Discourses on “Foreign Maids” in Taiwan 111
13. 7. Hot and Noisy: Taiwan’s Night Market Culture 129
14. 8. Disciplined Bodies in Direct Selling: Amway and Alternative Economic Culture in Taiwan 150
15. part V: Entertainment and the Audience: living for the moment and moments for the living
16. 9. Baseball, History, the Local and the Global in Taiwan 175
17. 10. Yang-Sucking She-Demons: Penetration, Fear of Castration, and Other Freudian Angst in Modern Chinese Cinema 204
18. Notes 219
19. Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations 237
20. Glossary of Characters 241
21. References 247
22. Contributors 269
23. Index 271