Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-156), discography (p. 139-140) , and index.
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The tail wags the dog : Taiwan's musical counter-invasion of China -- China's mandopop roots and Taiwan's gendered counter-invasion of the PRC -- Hybridity and its discontents : popular music in Taiwan -- Message in a bottle : lyrical laments and emotional expression in mandopop -- Men writing songs for women who complain about men : mandopop's gender construction in Taiwan and the PRC -- A man for all occasions : charisma and differing masculinity in mandopop -- Mandopop under siege : culturally bound criticisms of Taiwan's pop music.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This work 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 20 years.