The Other Taiwan, 1945-92

Examines the effects of the socio-economic post-war transformation on Taiwan's political system, environment, religious structures, the relationships between the sexes and the different ethnic populations. A complex revisionist portrait of the country emerges.

Sommario

The Other Taiwan; Introduction “The Taiwan Miracle”; I: Contexts; 1: Competing Identities in Taiwan; 2: Taiwanese Society in Transition: Reconciling Confucianism and Pluralism; II: Political Change; 3: Social Protests and Political Democratization in Taiwan; 4: Taiwan Factions: Guanxi, Patronage, and the State in Local Politics; 5: From Democratic Movement to Bourgeois Democracy: The Internal Politics of the Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party in 1991; III: The Other Economy; 6: Not by Rule of Law: Mediating State–Society Relations in Taiwan through the Underground Economy; 7: Vulnerability and Change in Taiwan's Agriculture; IV: The Environmental Movement; 8: Paying the Price of Economic Development in Taiwan: Environmental Degradation; 9: The Emergence of an Environmental Consciousness in Taiwan; V: Gender Issues; 10: Women's Liberation: The Taiwanese Experience; 11: The Social Discourse on Women's Roles in Taiwan: A Textual Analysis; 12: Changing Patters of Women's Employment in Taiwan, 1966–1986; VI: Questions of Ethnic Identity; 13: Language Unification in Taiwan: Present and Future; 14: The Emergence of a Taiwanese Popular Culture; 15: From Shanbao to Yuanzhumin: Taiwan Aborigines in Transition; VII: Religion in Transition; 16: Yiguan Dao: “Heterodoxy” and Popular Religion in Taiwan; 17: The New Testament Church and the Taiwanese Protestant Community

Info autore

Murray A. Rubinstein

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Murray A Rubinstein, Murray A. Rubinstein
• Editore: Taylor and Francis
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.1993
• EAN: 9781563241932
• ISBN: 978-1-56324-193-2
• Pagine: 400
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 35 mm
• Peso: 453 g
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Taiwan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, Politics & government, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Politics and government, Asian History, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)