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Bridging generations in Taiwan
This book examines identity change between two generations of Taiwanese women, one having come of age before Taiwan became an economic powerhouse, the other after. Biographies and lifestyle inventories were obtained from five mother-daughter pairs, and they show how women's lives have undergone revolutionary changes from the older to the younger generation.
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Flexibility, Foresight and Fortuna in Taiwan's Development
Using the developmental history of Taiwan as a starting point, Flexibility, Foresight and Fortuna critically examines several prevalent formulations of domestic development and international economy. The authors examine Taiwan's policy performance from, in turn, the developmental, the dependency, the statist, and the trade-off perspectives on political economy. They reject these approaches in favour of the key ideas of flexibility, foresight and fortuna as an explanation of Taiwan's relatively unusual success in achieving domestic development and upward mobility in the international system.
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Taiwan's politics in the 21st century
This unique volume highlights Taiwan's ongoing efforts to mediate between competing political actors, a means to ensure domestic stability and national security without severely affecting its continuous economic growth and sovereign status in international society. Taiwan's Politics in the 21st Century concentrates on three general areas: domestic politics, political economy, and external relations.
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Flexibility, Foresight and Fortuna in Taiwan's Development
Using the developmental history of Taiwan as a starting point, Flexibility, Foresight and Fortuna critically examines several prevalent formulations of domestic development and international economy.The authors examine Taiwan's policy performance from, in turn, the developmental, the dependency, the statist, and the trade-off perspectives on political economy. They reject these approaches in favour of the key ideas of flexibility, foresight and fortuna as an explanation of Taiwan's relatively unusual success in achieving domestic development and upward mobility in the international system
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The business of empire: The Taiwan Development Corporation and Japanese imperialism in Taiwan, 1936-1946
This study uses the Taiwan Development Corporation (1936-1946) to examine Japanese imperialism in Taiwan. The colonial state pursued two major goals in Taiwan: economic development through rice agriculture and sugar manufacturing and the creation of a subimperial sphere of influence in South China and Southeast Asia, the so-called nanpo. The TDC, a semi-public national policy corporation, was instrumental in implementing both. It integrated development and expansion into a form of developmental imperialism distinct from the military expansion in Northeast Asia that defines Japanese imperialism in existing historiography. The company engaged in a broad range of businesses in Taiwan and abroad. On Taiwan, it initially concentrated on land development and agriculture. In the late 1930s, however, it shifted to chemicals, metals, and mining. This was part of a larger effort to change the role of the Taiwanese economy within the empire from a periphery supplying raw materials to the Japanese metropole into a separate industrial core processing raw materials from its own periphery in the nanpo. Overseas, the company focused on French Indochina, where it mined and exported ore for processing in Taiwan and Japan, and Hainan Island, where it tried to create a \"second Taiwan\" by applying the development experience of Japan's first island colony. In both sites, the TDC, backed by the colonial state, sought a dominant position in competition with other public and private Japanese interests. TDC programs overseas attempted to link industrialization in Justin Adam Schneider Taiwan with an exclusive subimperial sphere in the nanpo. While absorption into the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere and Japanese defeat prevented this, the TDC's history demonstrates that Taiwan was as much an imperial as a colonial project, that Taihoku was as important as Tokyo in the early southward advance, and that competition among Japanese interests, as well as between Japanese and Taiwanese, was crucial in shaping the course of Japanese imperialism. The firm's legacy also contributed to postwar Taiwanese development, through both the physical capital of its plants, one of which is still in operation, and the human capital of its former employees, some of whom founded their own firms.
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Taiwan's modernization
This work is part of a broad examination of Confucianism and its implications for modernization of the Confucian regions (covering mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Singapore). It is mainly concerned with the industrialization and modernization of Taiwan. In order to understand the process of modernization, the text provides an introduction to the history of Taiwan and to Confucianism and its modern implications. As far as social and economic principles are concerned, Taiwan's modernization is, according to the author, characterized by Americanization and modernizing Confucian manifestations. The text demonstrates that Taiwan has actually provided an important case study not only for the capitalist spirit of overseas Chinese, but also for possible implications of Confucianism for modernization. In explaining Taiwan's modernization, it deals not only with economic and social issues, but also examines the philosophical foundations.
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Why Taiwan matters : small island, global powerhouse
Now in an updated paperback edition, Why Taiwan Matters offers a comprehensive but compact introduction to a country that exercises a role in the world far greater than its tiny size would indicate. Leading expert Shelley Rigger explains how Taiwan became such a key global player, highlighting economic and political breakthroughs so impressive they have been called \"miracles.\" She links these accomplishments to Taiwan's determined society, vibrant culture, and unique history. Drawing on arts, economics, politics, and international relations, Rigger explores Taiwan's importance to China, the United States, and the world. Considering where Taiwan may be headed in its wary standoff with China, she traces how the focus of Taiwan's domestic politics has shifted to a Taiwan-centered strategy. All readers interested in Asia and international affairs will find this an accessible and entertaining overview, replete with human interest stories and colorful examples of daily life in Taiwan.
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