| 英文摘要 |
The hand-shaken beverage bubble tea is one of the representative drinks among Taiwanese beverages in recent years. It has gained considerable popularity and created economic output value both in Taiwan and globally. Approachable and readily available, bubble tea is the result of the operation of multiple and complex social and cultural forces. This study adopts a documentary analysis and field study approach as research methods. Three stages are analyzed and presented: first, the budding period of hand-shaken beverages in the 1980s; secondly, the rapid growth period of hand-shaken beverage culture in the 1990s; and thirdly, the international expansion period for hand-shaken beverages from 2000 to the present. We also explore important factors that contribute to the phenomenon of hand-shaken beverages from a sociological perspective, including the liquidity of products; the liquidity of organizations; the multi-domain liquidity of knowledge and technology supports; and the liquidity and transformation of symbolic content. With these four aspects of the characteristics and transformation processes, we deconstruct the phenomenon of bubble tea food culture. |