Haunted Modernities : : Gender, Memory, and Placemaking in Postindustrial Taiwan /

Haunted Modernities : : Gender, Memory, and Placemaking in Postindustrial Taiwan / / Anru Lee.

In 1973 twenty-five young women drowned in a ferry accident on their way to work in factories in Taiwan’s Kaohsiung Export Processing Zone. Their remains were recovered and interred collectively in what came to be called the Twenty-five Maiden Ladies Tomb. Without a husband’s ancestral hall where th...

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Lee, Anru,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (246 p.) :; 9 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Mediated Memory, Contested Space
  • PART I: Onset: Ownership of the Dead
  • Chapter 1. The Death of Women Workers
  • Chapter 2. The Significance of Insignificant People
  • PART II: Ghostscapes
  • Chapter 3. Filial Daughters, Pious Ghosts
  • Chapter 4. Subservient Women, Worker Heroines
  • Chapter 5. Blue-Collar Industrial City, Blue-Color Ocean Capital
  • Chapter 6. Supernatural Beings, Modernist State
  • PART III: Afterlife
  • Chapter 7. Beyond the Memorial
  • Epilogue: Future Present, Future Past
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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