Author: Wen-Yen ChenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A Cross-cultural Study of American and Taiwanese Color Perception and the Influence of Design Context on Color Choices
Author: Wen-Yen ChenA Cross-cultural Study of Color Metaphors
Author: Keh-Ding LeeColors Across Culture
Author: Ching-Chih MaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Color in interior decoration
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Landscape Perception Differences Between American and Taiwanese Students
Author: Ying-Hung LiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Landscape assessment
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Identity Politics and Popular Culture in Taiwan
Author: Hsin-I Sydney YuehPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498510337
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
In the past two decades, a uniform representation of cutified femininity prevails in the Taiwanese media, evidenced by the shift of Taiwan’s popular cultural taste from a Chinese-centered tradition to a mixed absorption from neighboring cultural capitals in the global market. This book argues that the native term “sajiao” is the key to understand the phenomenon. Originally referring to a set of persuasive tactics through imitating a spoiled child’s gestures and ways of speaking to get attention or material goods, sajiao is commonly understood to be women’s weapon to manipulate men in the Mandarin-speaking communities. By re-interpreting sajiao as a “feminine” tactic, or the tactic of the weak, the book aims to propose a “feminine framework” in exploring identity politics in the following three aspects: the rising obsession with the immature female image in Taiwan’s popular culture, the adoption of the feminine communication style in native speakers’ everyday language and interactions, and the competing discourses between dominant/subordinate, central/peripheral, global/local, and Chinese/Taiwanese in shaping the identity politics in current Taiwanese society. The micro-analysis of everyday language politics leads the reader to examine layers of discourse about gender, identity, and communication, and finally to inquire how to situate or categorize “Taiwan” in area studies. The “feminine framework” is a useful theoretical tool that not only deconstructs everyday communication practice but also provides a bottom-up, alternative angle in analyzing Taiwan’s role in political, economic, and cultural flows in East Asia. The massive imports of popular cultural products in the late 80s, mainly from Japan, fermented the kawaii (Japanese cute) type of femininity in regulating everyday communication and the perception of gender roles in Taiwan. The popularity of the baby-like female image is concurrent with the simmering debate on Taiwanese identity. Taiwan offers a unique perspective for observing identity politics because it still holds an undetermined status in the international community. The collective uncertainty about the island’s future and the diminishing voice in the international society become the backdrop for the growth of defining, interpreting, and appropriating sajiao elements in the popular culture. This book offers an in-depth examination of the interplay among local historical contexts, cross-border capitalist exchange, and everyday communication that shapes the dialogism of Taiwanese identity.
Two Studies of Color
Author: Nancy P. HickersonPublisher: de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783112420430
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : de
Pages : 0
Book Description
American and Chinese Perceptions and Belief Systems
Author: L. FuPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9780306449802
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Based on a comparative analysis of Chinese and American students,this unique study offers insights into the contemporary views and values developed in three different socio-political settings-the post-modern, industrial environment of the United States; the socialistic environment of the People's Republic of China; and the developing free market of Taiwan. Empirical data reveal previously uncharted dimensions of cultural similarities, differences, and the effects of different economic and social systems on people's perceptions of their world and major contemporary problems.
A Cross-cultural Study of the U.S. and Taiwanese Children's Visual Image Reading
Author: Yu-ting ChiouPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
This study aimed to understand, compare and describe details about U.S children and Taiwanese children's visual image reading. The researcher interviewed thirty children ages 8 to 10 in the state of Arizona and Taiwan. The researcher employed quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze the data. The analysis using these two methods provided different ways of comprehending the data. The results showed that the two groups of children's image reading did not have statistically significant differences in most categories; but there were demonstrable trends and viewpoints employed when both groups of children explained the details of the images.
Author: Delia Lynn Yskamp
Author: Po-Jeng Wang