Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation
Where statehood is contested, questions of identity and territory define the political landscape Despite maintaining de facto sovereignty, states like Taiwan find themselves unrecognized in today's international system because another power claims the state as part of their territory. This fraught status, in turn, significantly affects the ......
Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation
Where statehood is contested, questions of identity and territory define the political landscape Despite maintaining de facto sovereignty, states like Taiwan find themselves unrecognized in today's international system because another power claims the state as part of their territory. This fraught status, in turn, significantly affects the ......
Traces Japan's efforts to modernize Taiwan through gendered educational practices In Good Wife, Wise Mother, female education and citizenship serve as a lens through which to examine Taiwan's uniqueness as a colonial crossroads between Chinese and Japanese ideas and practices. A latecomer to the age of imperialism, Japan used modernization ......
Traces Japan's efforts to modernize Taiwan through gendered educational practices In Good Wife, Wise Mother, female education and citizenship serve as a lens through which to examine Taiwan's uniqueness as a colonial crossroads between Chinese and Japanese ideas and practices. A latecomer to the age of imperialism, Japan used modernization ......
From a cradle of Austronesian expansion to the dynamic economic powerhouse and successful democracy it is today, Taiwan is layered in colonial histories. In Taiwan Lives, Niki J. P. Alsford presents a comprehensive examination of the island nation's rich and complex past, told through the life stories of those who have lived it. A merchant, an ......
From a cradle of Austronesian expansion to the dynamic economic powerhouse and successful democracy it is today, Taiwan is layered in colonial histories. In Taiwan Lives, Niki J. P. Alsford presents a comprehensive examination of the island nation's rich and complex past, told through the life stories of those who have lived it. A merchant, an ......
In this pathbreaking collections of essays, Canada-based Chinese scholar Simin Li explores the latest insights into information, knowledge, political communication, and identity in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and their neighbors, friends, and adversaries. Discourses of Asian Societies follows the social dynamics of these East Asian nations and ......
In this exciting new book, Taiwanese scholar Catherine Kai-Ping Lin examines Taiwan's diplomatic history since the 1970s through the lens of sports in the development of nationalism in foreign relations. Since 1971, when Taiwan lost its United Nations seat to the communist People's Republic of China, the country has gradually shifted its foreign ......
Since the 1960s, the Asian Tigers have combined economic success and autocratic politics. This book explores the complex transitions under way in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, as the leaderships shift their economic and political relationships in order to survive in the global economy.
