Tanners of Taiwan - Life Strategies and National Culture

Tanners of Taiwan is an ethnography of identity construction set in the leather-tanning communities of Southern Taiwan. Through life history analysis and ethnographic observation, Simon examines what it means to be Chinese - or alternatively Taiwanese - in contemporary Taiwan.

List of contents

Series Editor Preface , Notes on Transliteration of Mandarin and Taiwanese , Introduction , Historical Contexts , Social Background , Tanners and Family Firms , Corporate and Firm Networks , Women and Enterprise , Workers and Bosses , Cross-Strait Investment and National Identity , Political Movements—Toward a Free Taiwan , Glossary , The Labor Process of Leather Tanning

About the author

Scott Simon

Summary

Tanners of Taiwan is an ethnography of identity construction set in the leather-tanning communities of Southern Taiwan. Through life history analysis and ethnographic observation, Simon examines what it means to be Chinese - or alternatively Taiwanese - in contemporary Taiwan.

Product details

• Authors: Scott Simon, Simon Scott
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367096786
• ISBN: 978-0-367-09678-6
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Case Studies in Anthropology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Politics & government, Politics and government