Routledge handbook of contemporary Taiwan / edited by Gunter Schubert.

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Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
Description
1 online resource (589 pages)

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The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan offers a comprehensive overview of both contemporary Taiwan and the Taiwan studies field. Each contribution summarises the major findings in the field and highlights long-term trends, recent observations and possible future developments in Taiwan. Written by an international team of experts, the chapters included in the volume form an accessible and fascinating insight into contemporary Taiwan. Up-to-date, interdisciplinary, and academically rigorous, the handbook will be of interest to students, academics, policymakers and others in search of reliable information on Taiwanese politics, economics, culture and society.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed March 9, 2021)
Contents
  • Part 1. Political history
  • 1. Taiwan in late Ming and Qing China / Ann Heylen
  • 2. Taiwan under Japanese rule (1895-1945) / Wan-Yao Chou
  • 3. Retrocession and authoritarian KMT rule (1945-1986) / Thomas B. Gold
  • 4. Taiwan during and after the democratic transition (1988-2016) / J. Bruce Jacobs
  • 5. Taiwan's independence movement / Stefan Fleischauer
  • Part 2. Government and politics
  • 6. Parties and party systems / Dafydd J. Fell
  • 7. Party ideology / Shelley Rigger
  • 8. Elections / Timothy S. Rich, Jonathan Sullivan
  • 9. Local factions / Stefan Braig
  • 10. National identity / Christopher R. Hughes
  • 11. Transitional justice in postwar Taiwan / Jau-Yuan Hwang
  • 12. Politics and the media / Jens Damm
  • Part 3. Political economy
  • 13. The developmental state and Taiwan / Joseph Wong
  • 14. Taiwan's mainland entrepreneurs (Taishang) / Gunter Schubert
  • 15. Taiwan and economic globalization / Tse-Kang Leng
  • Part 4. Society and culture
  • 16. The development of civil society organizations in post-authoritarian Taiwan (1988-2014) / Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, Yu-Yuan Kuan
  • 17. Indigenous movements and multicultural Taiwan / Chun-Chieh Chi
  • 18. Labor movement / Ming-Sho Ho
  • 19. Anit-nuclear power movement / Simona A. Grano
  • 20. The long feminist march in Taiwan / Yun Fan, Wei-Ting Wu
  • 21. Religion and politics / André Laliberte
  • 22. Social welfare / Yeun-Wen Ku, James Cherng-Tay Hsueh
  • 23. Modern Taiwan literature / Ping-Hui Liao
  • 24. Cultural democratisation and Taiwan cinema / Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley
  • Part 5. Cross-strait relations
  • 25. Cross-Strait dialogue and policies / Yu-Shan Wu
  • 26. Cross-Strait economic integration (1992-2015) / Pei-Shan Lee, Yun-Han Chu
  • 27. The China factor in Taiwan / Jieh-Min Wu
  • 28. Cross-Strait marriages and immigration policies / Isabelle Cheng
  • Part 6. International relations and security
  • 29. Taiwan's foreign policy and international space / Kwei-Bo Huang
  • 30. Taiwan-US security relations / Cheng-Yi Lin
  • 31. Taiwan and the South China Sea / Mu-Min Chen
  • 32. European-Taiwan relations / Gudrun Wacker
  • 33. Security policy / Richard Bush
  • 34. Taiwan's public diplomacy / Colin Alexander.
Other title(s)
Handbook of contemporary Taiwan
ISBN
  • 1-317-66970-3
  • 1-315-76952-2
  • 1-317-66969-X
OCLC
950638598
Doi
  • 10.4324/9781315769523
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