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Author : World Trade Press
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (966 download)
Download or read book Taiwan Society & Culture Complete Report written by World Trade Press and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen O. Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Taiwanese Culture, Taiwanese Society written by Stephen O. Murray and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amy C. Liu
Publisher : Amy C Liu
ISBN 13 : 9789579784764
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Taiwan A to Z written by Amy C. Liu and published by Amy C Liu. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Taiwan A to Z provides the essential information you need to know before you go to Taiwan. Whether you're planning to be there a week or three years, this book is a must-read for any foreigner to Taiwan who wants to be successful there. Do you know: Why it's a very bad idea to give a clock as a gift? Why so many Taiwanese people have PhDs? How Taiwanese parents choose names for their children? Why a new mother shouldn't take a bath for a month after giving birth? The answers to these and many other intriguing questions can be found in Taiwan A to Z, a product of the author's discovery of her own roots. Written by a Taiwanese who has a deep understanding of both Western and Eastern cultures, this book provides foreigners to Taiwan with true insights into the fascinating intricacies of Taiwanese culture. Taiwan A to Z explains the essential information any expatriate living and working in Taiwan should know."--Cover
Author : Hsin-I Sydney Yueh
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498510337
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Identity Politics and Popular Culture in Taiwan written by Hsin-I Sydney Yueh and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past two decades, a uniform representation of cutified femininity prevails in the Taiwanese media, evidenced by the shift of Taiwan’s popular cultural taste from a Chinese-centered tradition to a mixed absorption from neighboring cultural capitals in the global market. This book argues that the native term “sajiao” is the key to understand the phenomenon. Originally referring to a set of persuasive tactics through imitating a spoiled child’s gestures and ways of speaking to get attention or material goods, sajiao is commonly understood to be women’s weapon to manipulate men in the Mandarin-speaking communities. By re-interpreting sajiao as a “feminine” tactic, or the tactic of the weak, the book aims to propose a “feminine framework” in exploring identity politics in the following three aspects: the rising obsession with the immature female image in Taiwan’s popular culture, the adoption of the feminine communication style in native speakers’ everyday language and interactions, and the competing discourses between dominant/subordinate, central/peripheral, global/local, and Chinese/Taiwanese in shaping the identity politics in current Taiwanese society. The micro-analysis of everyday language politics leads the reader to examine layers of discourse about gender, identity, and communication, and finally to inquire how to situate or categorize “Taiwan” in area studies. The “feminine framework” is a useful theoretical tool that not only deconstructs everyday communication practice but also provides a bottom-up, alternative angle in analyzing Taiwan’s role in political, economic, and cultural flows in East Asia. The massive imports of popular cultural products in the late 80s, mainly from Japan, fermented the kawaii (Japanese cute) type of femininity in regulating everyday communication and the perception of gender roles in Taiwan. The popularity of the baby-like female image is concurrent with the simmering debate on Taiwanese identity. Taiwan offers a unique perspective for observing identity politics because it still holds an undetermined status in the international community. The collective uncertainty about the island’s future and the diminishing voice in the international society become the backdrop for the growth of defining, interpreting, and appropriating sajiao elements in the popular culture. This book offers an in-depth examination of the interplay among local historical contexts, cross-border capitalist exchange, and everyday communication that shapes the dialogism of Taiwanese identity.
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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113403623X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Re-writing Culture in Taiwan written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Clart
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824825645
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Religion in Modern Taiwan written by Philip Clart and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion in Modern Taiwan takes a new look at Taiwan's current religious traditions and their fortunes during the twentieth century. Beginning with the cession of Taiwan to Japan in 1895 and the currents of modernization that accompanied it, the essays move on to explore the developments that have taken place as Buddhists, Daoists, Christians, non-Han aborigines, and others have confronted, resisted, and adapted to (even thrived in) the many upheavals of the modern period. An overview of Taiwan's current religious scene is followed by a comprehensive look at the state of religion in the country prior to the end of World War II and the return of Taiwan to Chinese sovereignty. The remaining essays probe aspects of change within individual religious traditions. The final chapter analyzes changes that took place in the scholarly study and interpretation of religion in Taiwan during the course of the twentieth century. Religion in Modern Taiwan will be read with interest by students and scholars of Chinese religion, religion in Taiwan, the modern history of Taiwan, and by those concerned with issues of religion and modernization. Contributors: Chang Hsun, Philip Clart, Shiun-wey Huang, Christian Jochim, Charles B. Jones, Paul Katz, André Laliberté, Lee Fong-mao, Randall Nadeau, Julian Pas, Barbara Reed, Murray A. Rubinstein.
Author : David K. Jordan
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824864867
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book The Minor Arts of Daily Life written by David K. Jordan and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2004-03-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Minor Arts of Daily Life is an account of the many ways in which contemporary Taiwanese approach their ordinary existence and activities. It presents a wide range of aspects of day-to-day living to convey something of the world as experienced by the Taiwanese themselves. Contributors: Alice Chu, Chien-Juh Gu, David K. Jordan, Paul R. Katz, Chin-Ju Lin, Andrew D. Morris, Marc L. Moskowitz, Scott Simon, Shuenn-Der Yu.
Author : Melissa J. Brown
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520231821
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Is Taiwan Chinese? written by Melissa J. Brown and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-02-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Melissa Brown looks at the issue of Tiawan - specifically whether or not the Taiwanese are of Chinese/Han ethnicity (as is claimed by the Chinese government) - or is there in fact a Taiwanese ethnicity that is in fact unique unto itself (as the Taiwanese claim).
Author : Joint Committee on Contemporary China
Publisher : Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804710435
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Anthropology of Taiwanese Society written by Joint Committee on Contemporary China and published by Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents the state of the art of anthropology in Taiwan, summing up more than twenty years of fieldwork and publication. It also contains the fullest and best integrated set of anthropological data we have for any region of China, for any period of history. It deals directly with the difficult question that faces China anthropologists - in what sense is Taiwan a part of China? Should Taiwan be primarily described as a natural end product of a long cultural tradition (a Chinese province), or should it be primarily described as a product of external factors (a small, rapidly developing society with the world's densest population, uniquely situated in the world economy)? For other anthropologists, the volume contains data and analysis that pertain to many current problems: the relationship between ethnicity and social class, the role of historical factors in anthropological explanation, the interaction between religious activities and state control, and the interplay between national and local political and economic systems.--Publisher description.
Author : Thomas B. Gold
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765636430
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (364 download)
Download or read book State and Society in the Taiwan Miracle written by Thomas B. Gold and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1986-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the application of constructivist theory to international relations. The text examines the relevance of constructivism for empirical research, focusing on some of the key issues of contemporary international politics: ethnic and national identity; gender; and political economy.
Author : Tianjian Shi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107011760
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Cultural Logic of Politics in Mainland China and Taiwan written by Tianjian Shi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses surveys, statistics, and case studies to explain why and how cultural norms affect political attitudes and behavior.
Author : Robert Blackwill
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations Press
ISBN 13 : 9780876092835
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The United States, China, and Taiwan written by Robert Blackwill and published by Council on Foreign Relations Press. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taiwan "is becoming the most dangerous flash point in the world for a possible war that involves the United States, China, and probably other major powers," warn Robert D. Blackwill, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy, and Philip Zelikow, University of Virginia White Burkett Miller professor of history. In a new Council Special Report, The United States, China, and Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War, the authors argue that the United States should change and clarify its strategy to prevent war over Taiwan. "The U.S. strategic objective regarding Taiwan should be to preserve its political and economic autonomy, its dynamism as a free society, and U.S.-allied deterrence-without triggering a Chinese attack on Taiwan." "We do not think it is politically or militarily realistic to count on a U.S. military defeat of various kinds of Chinese assaults on Taiwan, uncoordinated with allies. Nor is it realistic to presume that, after such a frustrating clash, the United States would or should simply escalate to some sort of wide-scale war against China with comprehensive blockades or strikes against targets on the Chinese mainland." "If U.S. campaign plans postulate such unrealistic scenarios," the authors add, "they will likely be rejected by an American president and by the U.S. Congress." But, they observe, "the resulting U.S. paralysis would not be the result of presidential weakness or timidity. It might arise because the most powerful country in the world did not have credible options prepared for the most dangerous military crisis looming in front of it." Proposing "a realistic strategic objective for Taiwan, and the associated policy prescriptions, to sustain the political balance that has kept the peace for the last fifty years," the authors urge the Joe Biden administration to affirm that it is not trying to change Taiwan's status; work with its allies, especially Japan, to prepare new plans that could challenge Chinese military moves against Taiwan and help Taiwan defend itself, yet put the burden of widening a war on China; and visibly plan, beforehand, for the disruption and mobilization that could follow a wider war, but without assuming that such a war would or should escalate to the Chinese, Japanese, or American homelands. "The horrendous global consequences of a war between the United States and China, most likely over Taiwan, should preoccupy the Biden team, beginning with the president," the authors conclude.
Author : Ming-y Rawnsley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415421874
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Cultural and Social Change in Taiwan written by Ming-y Rawnsley and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the processes of cultural, social & political transition in Taiwan since 1945, investigating their impact on the Taiwanese cultural industries, with a particular focus on cinema & theatre, & showing how changes in cinema & theatre illustrate the broader cultural, social & political changes taking place.
Author : Jennifer Thomas
Publisher : Teacher Created Resources
ISBN 13 : 9781557343468
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Connecting Art and Literature written by Jennifer Thomas and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 1992 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides specific strategies and activities for integrating art and children's literature selections.
Author : John F Copper
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0813346932
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Taiwan written by John F Copper and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this newly revised and updated edition of Taiwan: Nation-State or Province? John F. Copper examines Taiwan's geography and history, society and culture, economy, political system, and foreign and security policies in the context of Taiwan's uncertain political status as either a sovereign nation or a province of the People's Republic of China. Copper argues that Taiwan's very rapid and successful democratization suggests Taiwan should be independent and separate from China, while economic links between Taiwan and China indicate the opposite. New to the sixth edition is enhanced coverage of the issues of immigration; the impact of having the world's lowest birthrate; China's economic and military rise and America's decline; Taiwan's relations with China, the United States, and Japan; and the KMT's (Nationalist Party) return to power. The new edition will also examine the implications of the 2012 presidential election. A selected bibliography guides students in further research.
Author : Shelley Rigger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442230029
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Why Taiwan Matters written by Shelley Rigger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Shen-Keng Yang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317620054
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Teacher Education in Taiwan written by Shen-Keng Yang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Teacher Education Act was in place in 1994, student teachers were educated through diverse educational institutions instead of the traditional normal schools (Taiwan’s equivalent of teachers’ colleges). But such market-based teacher education has been altered by politics, society and culture in the direction of government-controlled teacher education, particularly in the quality evaluation of teacher education. Taiwan maintains teacher education quality by controlling the number of teachers, using teacher assessment to eliminate teachers who are not up to standard, evaluating teacher education institutions, evaluating professional development of teachers to raise elementary and secondary teacher quality. This book uses Taiwan as a case study to analyze the transformation of teacher education in a country which goes through political, economic and societal transitions, along the axis of state regulation vs marketization. It analyzes the uniqueness of Taiwanese teacher education for international reference, and draws implications for teacher education policies in the context of education reform. The Formation of Two Approaches to Teacher Education Teacher Education Policy and Policy Direction in Taiwan The Ideology, Implications, Applications of Teacher Profession Standards The Teacher Education Strategic Alliances in Taiwan This book will interest policy makers, researchers and students in the field of education, especially in teacher education and comparative education.
