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Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Relocating the Multilingual New Taiwanese Literature -- The Nationalist Paradigm of Taiwan Literature: Lai He -- From Nationalism to Socialism: Yang Kui -- Popular Romances and Their Alternative Modernity: Xu Kunquan and Wu Mansha -- Stylistic Reorientation and Innovation: Lü Heruo, Long Yingzong, and Weng Nao -- How to Become "Japanese"?: Chen Huoquan, Wang Changxiong, and Zhou Jinbo -- The Lure of China: Zhong Lihe and Wu Zhuoliu -- Epilogue: Toward a Multifaceted Literary Commonwealth -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.

Reality TV is the most popular and controversial television genre in postcolonial Islamic Malaysia. With its origins in the West, the copying of reality programmes has heightened existing East-West struggles and magnified social, cultural and political concerns within society. Existing alongside the reality TV phenomenon are 'real' issues concerning multiculturalism, national identity, religious fragmentation, racial tension, gender equality, and the suppression of human rights. Inevitably as a result of tight national security, surveillance and censorship, these 'real world' discourses get entwined in an alternative entertainment form that claims to be 'real'. This study explores the complex ways in which reality TV in Malaysia can be described as 'political' and poses questions about the role of reality programmes in the Malaysian public sphere. Furthermore, this study considers the relationship between reality TV and ideas of nationalism in the context of globalisation and cultural change. It examines how reality programmes may be viewed as spaces of fantasy and (or) empowerment, which could then reveal the formation of new social, cultural, and national ideals. Based on textual and discourse analysis, this study also engages with the Islamisation-liberalism dialectic manifested through reality TV. By looking at the reception of reality TV among Malaysians including notions of identification, performativity and transformation, this study attempts to construct a relatively new way of looking at the conflicts and contradictions embedded within the Malaysian society. It makes an argument for the idea of a new Malaysian civilisation and the postcolonial nation's desperate attempt to be non-West.

Science Popularisation Policies and Regulations in China -- Science Popularisation Among the Youth -- Science Popularisation among Farmers -- Science Popularisation among the Urban Working Class -- Science Popularisation among Urban Communities -- Science Popularisation among Party Leaders and Civil Servants -- Science Education and Training for Scientific Literacy -- Building Science Popularisation Resource Base -- Science and Technology through Mass Media -- Science Popularisation Infrastructure -- Development of Science Popularisation Workforce -- Science Communication Activities -- Citizens' Scientific Literacy, Monitoring and Assessment -- Implementation of the Outline of National Scheme for Scientific Literacy.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Note on Romanizations and Translation -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Taiwan and Korea in Tandem -- Toward De-Colonization and "De-Cold Warring" -- Bibliography -- Part I Colonial Romance and Its Postwar Metamorphosis -- Chapter 2 Coining the Ideal Woman in Love/Marriage Fiction from Colonial Taiwan -- Fengyuebao as a Site of Love/Marriage Discourse -- Xu Kunquan's Characterization of "Modern" Ideal Womanhood -- Wu Mansha's Polarized Portrait of Modeng Women and New Women -- Hyperbolic, Melodramatic Rhetoric -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 The Epic and the Alternative: Romance in Postcolonial Taiwan -- The Literary Field of Early Postwar Taiwan -- An Epic Romance: Wang Lan's Synthesis of Love and War -- A Banned Modernist Attempt: Guo Lianghui and Her The Locked Heart -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Claiming Colonial Masculinity: Sex and Romance in Ch'ae Mansik's Colonial Fiction -- Korean-Japanese Intermarriage and Its Effect/Affect -- Erotic Desire and Japanese Women in "Transition" -- Mysterious Japanese Woman in Frozen Fish -- Conclusion -- Bibliogrpahy -- Chapter 5 From the Detective to the Romance Genre: Popular Fiction in Postcolonial Korea -- Kim Naesŏng and His Literary Work -- Detective Fiction as Popular Literature in the Colonial Period -- Romantic Love and Family -- Transition from the Colonial to the Postcolonial: Consumerism and Colonial Privilege -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part II Cinematic Nationalism and Melodrama in the Colonial and Postwar Eras -- Chapter 6 The Production of Imperialized Bodies: Colonial Taiwan's Film Regulations and Propaganda Films -- Film Regulations of Wartime Taiwan -- The Changeable "Us" and "Others" Inside the Empire.

This study examines how perceived physical office environment features affect occupants' creativity through positive moods.
Based on a sample of 181 occupants in open-plan offices, we found that perceived spatial organization features had a positive relationship with occupants'
self-assessed creativity, and this relationship is mediated by positive moods. Although perceived architectonic details of the physical work environment
do not have a direct effect on occupants' creativity, there is also a mediating effect through positive moods. A further examination revealed that activated
positive mood significantly mediates the relationship between both physical work environment features and occupants' creativity, whereas deactivated positive
mood was not significant as a mediator. When occupants perceived the physical work environment to be supportive in providing various workspaces and is well
decorated, it is most likely to enhance creativity.

PurposeThe Multiple Employment Promotion Program (MEPP) is an employment promotion measure taken by the Taiwanese Government to deal with the rising unemployment problem since 1996. The goal of this program is to subsidize non‐profit organizations (NPOs) for hiring unemployed workers to assist in the deprived neighborhoods. This paper aims to describe this program and show its impacts on workers in terms of their reemployment conditions and its influences on participating NPOs by analyzing empirical data and reviewing relevant documents.Design/methodology/approachThe sample includes 2,778 people who took part in the MEPP from 16 April 2004 to 1 July 2007. Descriptive analysis,t‐test and ANOVA were used to identify the MEPP's impacts on participants. As for the effects of the MEPP on NPOs, this paper reviewed and summarized relevant reports consulting the employers' opinions.FindingsBy comparing participants' labor participation outcomes before and after joining the MEPP, it was found that the reemployment rate of the participants reached 60 per cent. With regard to its impacts on NPOs, most participating organizations deemed that the program was effective in terms of manpower supply, organizational development and building a partnership with the government. Moreover, about 79 per cent of the NPOs would like to continue to employ the participants after the termination of the plans.Originality/valueThis is the first study in Taiwan that uses objective data from the labour insurance records to trace the MEPP participants after they leave the plan.