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This book examines and reviews some of the key figures in Taiwan Studies to plot the development of the field by revisiting their earlier influential books and bodies of work. Often autobiographical in detail, each chapter asks the author to discuss the origins of their research and how their engagement with the field has developed since.
List of contents
1. Taiwan Studies Revisited Part 1: 1980s-early 1990s 2. My Journey of Social Movements and Civil Society Research Revisited 3. State and Society in the Taiwan Miracle Revisited 4. Revisiting Taiwan: China’s Last Frontier Part 2: 1990s 5. Revisiting Taiwan and Chinese Nationalism: Identity and Status in International Society 6. Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy Revisited Part 3: 2000s Towards a Golden Era 7. In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity and Beyond: Gender and Labour as a (Renewed) Research Agenda 8. Tigers on the Mountain: Assessing Is Taiwan Chinese? in 2018 9. Healthy Democracies and Welfare Politics in Taiwan: The Arguments, Refinements and Limitations 10. Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan Revisited 11. Party Politics in Taiwan Revisited 12. Writing Taiwanese: Then and now, how, why and who? 13. Depoliticizing a structurally politicized society: The importance of responsible political agency
About the author
Dafydd Fell is the Reader in Comparative Politics with special reference to Taiwan at the Department of Politics and International Studies of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is also the Director of the SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies.
Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao is the Adjunct Research Fellow of the Institute of Sociology, in Academia Sinica, Taiwan and Chair Professor of Hakka Studies, National Central University. He is also the chairman of both Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation (TAEF) and the Executive Committee of Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), National Chengchi University.
Summary
This book examines and reviews some of the key figures in Taiwan Studies to plot the development of the field by revisiting their earlier influential books and bodies of work. Often autobiographical in detail, each chapter asks the author to discuss the origins of their research and how their engagement with the field has developed since.
