Philobiblon

Having lived there for quite a while, I think that not much can surprise me about the cultural differences in attitudes to sex matters between West and East, but I’d never heard of having striptease at funerals before.

I interviewed the comic Tuo Xian who was one of the first organizers of strip shows in Taiwan. The performance of striptease at funerals, but also at real estate promotions and other occasion, started some 20 years ago and peaked during the mid-80s.

(From a discussion at H-Asia.)