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Chapter 12, “Millennial Taiwan Food Films,” contends that such films’ indulgence in food and fine dining refracts, i.e., reflects and deflects at once, the reality that this island nation is not deemed a nation, one with neither sovereignty nor collective identity, in the eye of the international community. Taiwan is, de facto, a sacrificial lamb amidst superpowers’ struggle for dominance. Torn and disemboweled by the wolf packs of China, the U.S., and Japan, its nearly severed head dreams of, urgently, a fusion menu of native Taiwanese, mainland Chinese, Japanese, and Western food and drink to fill the gut that feels strangely empty.
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Ma, Sm. (2017). Millennial Taiwan Food Films: Naming and Epicurean Cure. In: Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58033-3_12
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