Dictation from T.W. House
Author | : T. W. House |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Texas |
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Author | : T. W. House |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Texas |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Taiwan |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marc L. Moskowitz |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2009-11-24 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0824833694 |
Since the mid-1990s, Taiwan’s unique brand of Mandopop (Mandarin Chinese–language pop music) has dictated the musical tastes of the mainland and the rest of Chinese-speaking Asia. Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow explores Mandopop’s surprisingly complex cultural implications in Taiwan and the PRC, where it has established new gender roles, created a vocabulary to express individualism, and introduced transnational culture to a country that had closed its doors to the world for twenty years. In his early chapters, Marc L. Moskowitz provides the historical background necessary to understand the contemporary Mandopop scene, beginning with the birth of Chinese popular music in the East Asian jazz Mecca of 1920s Shanghai. A brief overview of alternative musical genres in the PRC such as Beijing rock and revolutionary opera is included. The section concludes with a look at the manner in which Taiwan’s musical ethos has influenced the mainland’s music industry and how Mandopop has brought Western music and cultural values to the PRC. This leads to a discussion of Taiwan pop’s exceptional hybridity, beginning with foreign influences during the colonial period under the Dutch and Japanese and continuing with the country’s political, cultural, and economic alliance with the U.S. Moskowitz addresses the resulting wealth of transnational musical influences from the rest of East Asia and the U.S. and Taiwan pop’s appeal to audiences in both the PRC and Taiwan. In doing so, he explores how Mandopop’s "songs of sorrow," with their ubiquitous themes of loneliness and isolation, engage a range of emotional expression that resonates strongly in the PRC. Later chapters examine the construction of male and female identities in Mandopop and look at the widespread condemnation of the genre by critics. Drawing on analyses and data from earlier chapters (including interviews with dozens of performers, song writers, and lay people in Taipei and Shanghai), Moskowitz attempts to answer the question: Why, if the music is as bad as some assert, is it so central to the lives of the largest population in the world? To answer, he highlights Mandopop’s important contribution as a poetic lament that simultaneously embraces and protests modern life. Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow is a highly readable introduction to an important but understudied East Asian phenomenon. It will find a ready audience among scholars and students of Chinese and Taiwanese popular culture as well as musicologists studying transnational music flows and non-Western popular music.
Author | : Alice Feeney |
Publisher | : Flatiron Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-03-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250144833 |
My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?
Author | : Tacoma (Wash.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Municipal services |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Environmental impact statements |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Martial law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Taiwan |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Bureau of International Commerce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Economic history |
ISBN | : |
Author | : J. Michael Cole |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1440150591 |
Despite the warm reception in world capitals and favorable press coverage the cross-strait policies of Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou have received since he came into office on May 20, 2008, there is something rotten in Taipei. In just one year, the cost of closer relations with Beijing has become increasingly obvious in Taiwan, the small, officially unrecognized democracy of 23 million people, where police brutality, government meddling in the media and political persecution are reawakening the specter of its authoritarian past. In a timely collection of essays and reportage written during the last 18 months of the Chen Shui-bian administration and Ma's first year in office, Democracy in Peril offers a history of the present in Taiwan as this vibrant democracy and economic powerhouse strives for international recognition under the constant fear of Chinese invasion. It shows how the greatest threat to the nation's survival now possibly comes from within, under a government that has proven divisive and whose efforts to improve relations with China could come at an unbearable price - not only to Taiwanese, but to the entire world.