Coffee Era: A Century of Glamour in Taiwanese Cafes

Author: Shen Mengying
Publisher: Yuan Zhu Culture
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Features: Coffee and coffee houses in the Japanese colonial period were introduced to Taiwan's land by Japanese-educated scholars and literati. With the passage of time, they transformed into different styles and played a significant role in Taiwan's literary and cultural public sphere. This book is written in two parts: The first part focuses on the historical context of the emergence, development, and transformation of Taiwanese coffee houses, with time as the central axis. It narrates the culture and spatial forms of Taiwanese coffee houses from 1920 to the present, categorizing key moments when coffee houses underwent major changes in both content and substance. The second part discusses the various popular and main topics within Taiwanese coffee houses. After reading this book, you will find that you don’t need to envy France—Taiwan’s coffee houses also have culture! The book includes fourteen chapters: Across the Ocean: The Fantastical Utopia Modern Leisure Tea Houses (1928) Frontier of Cultural Stratification Receiving New Culture (1935) Arts and Literary Coffee Houses That Followed the Army (1949) Black Coffee Houses Where You Can’t See Fingers (1960) The Trend of Writers Opening Coffee Houses (1968) The Warring States Era of Coffee (1970) The Family History of Multinational Chain Coffee Houses (1980) The Individualistic Coffee House and Its Followers (1993) I Am, and I Am Not in the Coffee House (1996) The Body Experience and Spatial Context in Coffee Houses Women in Coffee Houses The Evolutionary History of Coffee House Space Design Literary Imagination in Coffee Houses.