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“Doubting Mania” (la folie du doute)

Jennifer Fleissner on “doubt” as part of what she calls “obsessional modernity“: The mechanical discourse of neurasthenia as nervous exhaustion, however, was not the only way its symptoms were characterized in the 1880s and 1890s. Notably, a number of American psychologists borrowed from their French counterparts another term to describe some of the condition’s more…

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“Detention” {返校} Taiwanese horror PC game set during Martial Law Era

“The lone teenager, the ominous campus, the unbearable truth. Set in 1960’s Taiwan under martial law. Detention, with unique and appealing graphics and OST. Invites you to unlock the spine-chilling mysteries.” It’s put out by Red Candle Games, buyable here Update 02-02-2018: I still haven’t gotten around to playing this game since switching to a…

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Taiwanese Science Fiction Bibliography

Chinese-language SF Bibliography from NCHU (國立中興大學), Taiwan (in 繁體中文) 丁一。《太空天使號》。台北:金蘭,1986 山鬼。《邊界》。台北:成陽,2000。(上下冊) 文旦。《冰戀》。台北:皇冠,2003。 —。《二四俱樂部》。台北:皇冠,1999。 王小波。《未來世界》。台北:聯經,1995。 心岱。《地底人傳奇》。台北:時報,1992。 平路。(人工智慧記事)。《禁書啟示錄》台北:麥田,1997。 —。(驚夢曲)。《七十四年科幻小說選》。張系國編。台北:知 識系統,1986。 —。(按鍵的手)。《五印封緘》。台北:圓神,1988。 李黎。《袋鼠男人》。台北:聯合文學,1992。 呂應鐘。《時光巡邏員》。台中:晨星,1986。 —。《龍星傳人:呂應鐘科幻小說集》。網路版本。 http://www.thinkerstar.com/lu/sci-fi/stories/contents.html

Loos Talk: Notes

1) Loos begins by offering an example of a ‘triangulated reassessment of sexual ethics’ (Siam/China) to show complexity of the transnational history of sexuality in Asia. –transnational histories give broader, yet simultaneously more detailed views of regional histories…uneven integration. 2) Sets up a distinction between ‘transnational’ and ‘postcolonial’ histories—the latter focus on heterosexual, male-female relations,…

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