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BECOMING TERESA TENG,
BECOMING-TAIWANESE
By
Trong Shawn Ta
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(EAST ASIAN AREA STUDIES)
December 2009
Copyright 2009 Trong Shawn Ta
Object Description
| Title | Becoming Teresa Teng, becoming-Taiwanese |
| Author | Ta, Trong Shawn |
| Author email | trongta@usc.edu; tamadori@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | East Asian Area Studies |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-08-14 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-12-03 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Sheehan, Brett |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Birge, Bettine Goldstein, Joshua |
| Abstract | Teresa Teng was loved by millions of Chinese across the world, and after her death, the People's Republic of China expropriated her music to symbolically herald a united Chinese identity under the "One China" policy. Although Teresa had once protested against the PRC, the PRC strategically expropriated Teresa's mass appeal to millions of Chinese (in the Mainland and the Chinese Diaspora) to assert its centrality over Chinese culture. This myopic scope frames Teresa nostalgically so that alternative narratives are subsumed by PRC official histories. By controlling Teresa's image and the information concerning her, state-sponsored media grants leisure while distracting consumers from discovering the inconsistencies between its rhetoric and policies. My research examines Teresa in relation with Taiwan's historic experiences outside the nostalgic narrative to reclaim her from the PRC's propaganda. Additionally, it offers opportunities for informed audiences to challenge modern technologies of governmentality perpetrated via state-imposed cultural identities and histories. |
| Keyword | Asian studies; history; music; Taiwan; Taiwanese identity; China; Teresa Teng; Deng Li-jun |
| Geographic subject (country) | Taiwan; China |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2784 |
| Rights | Ta, Trong Shawn |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Ta-3189 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Ta-3189.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Full text | 0 BECOMING TERESA TENG, BECOMING-TAIWANESE By Trong Shawn Ta A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (EAST ASIAN AREA STUDIES) December 2009 Copyright 2009 Trong Shawn Ta |
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