Gui-Dao definition
Gui-Dao is a Chinese term which means ‘the ghost island’. Given the above extract, most Taiwanese young people like Miss M1 not only have to endure a busy and routine life, but they also face heavy financial pressure to survive under Taiwan’s market competition. These competitive circumstances, in Miss M1’s view, are so hard that they lead her to feel deprived. Therefore, she criticized her country, Taiwan, as ‘Gui-Dao’ to show her dissatisfaction with the neoliberal system.