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“Qiuchan” (秋蟬 “Autumn Cicadas”) is a popular Chinese-language song that highlights cicadas’ shrieks of high volume in the autumn as if personifying cicadas as outspoken people; in contrast, “chilling effect” is a legal term referring to the “undesirable discouraging effect” that muffles speakers at court.
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Chen, Yc. (2018). Cinematic Metaphors of Autumn Cicadas and Chilling Cicadas: The Way Out of Legal Bottlenecks in Sex Appeal . In: Chen, Yc. (eds) (En)Gendering Taiwan. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63219-3_5
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