Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-194) and index
Introduction -- Trauma and Taiwan's melodrama: Seven orphans of Cape no. 7 -- Island's irony: virtual pilgrimage circum-Taiwan in Search of th high Cs -- Mazu's touch, Taiwan nezha, and crying -- Globalization's bottom subtitle and switch in Wang Yu-Lin's Taiwanese dialect films -- Wet umbrell from Asian film to the White snake -- Hyde-and-seek in Asian diaspora: Dean Borshay Liem's Negative and Ang Lee's Ventriloquy -- Sold mountain Chinese-language films on Shangri-la -- Nestle in Shalu -- Taiwan's Englis education: A fish with three heads -- The fate of accidental Taiwanese: ways to leave your father -- Coda: China laying golden eggs
