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A Cobra Hijacked My Camera Bag! Snakes and Stories from Taiwan

March 22, 2015

The herp is on! Hans Breuer searches for a new pet ratsnake in Taipei restaurants, loses a coral snake in his living room, confronts a cobra in complete darkness, and assumes unorthodox yogic postures to photograph kraits, habus, and bamboo vipers. Between the tree ferns of Taiwan’s lush, rugged mountains, Hans draws us along to […]
Queer Politics and Sexual Modernity in Taiwan

March 22, 2015

This book delineates the history and politics of gender and sexuality since postwar Taiwan. Tracking the interface between queerness and national culture, it underscores the imbrications of male homosexuality, prostitution and feminism within the modernizing process and offers a trenchant critique of the violence of sexual modernity. Sale Price:$20.00 9888083082
Taiwan After China: Our Stories Since 1948

March 22, 2015

In 1949, the R.O.C. lost mainland China in the battle with the Communist. My parents followed the president Chung-Kai-Shek who was also the leader of Kuo Ming party, they temporarily retreated to Taiwan. The president Chiang Kai-Shek resettled ROC’s government in Taiwan. The relationship between Taiwan and China was intense at that time. What was […]
Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West (East Gate Books)

March 22, 2015

For centuries the island of Taiwan, 100 miles off the Asian mainland, has been a crossroads for traders and settlers, pirates and military schemers from around the world. Unlike China, with its long tradition of keeping foreigners out, Taiwan has a long history of interaction, both hostile and friendly, with other seafaring nations near and […]
Assessing the Threat: The Chinese Military and Taiwan’s Security (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

March 22, 2015

Since at least the early 1950s, the entire Asia-Pacific region has struggled with the complicated and complex relationship between China and Taiwan —today the Taiwan question is considered a potential flashpoint for a much larger international conflict. Bringing together experts from the United States and Taiwan, Assessing the Threat provides a comprehensive look at the […]
Language Choice and Identity Politics in Taiwan

March 22, 2015

Jennifer M. Wei argues that construction and perceptions of language and identity parallel socio-political transformations, and that language and identity crises arise during power transitions. Under these premises, language and identity are never well-defined or well-bounded. Instead, they are best viewed as political symbols subject to manipulation and exploitation during socio-historical upheavals. A choice of […]
A Chinese Pioneer Family: The Lins of Wu-feng, Taiwan, 1729-1895 (Studies of the East Asian Institute)

March 22, 2015

In an absorbing account of a frontier family’s rise to local eminence, from pioneer hardship to gentry affluence, Johanna Meskill presents not just a family history but a social history of late imperial China. The narrative centers on a half dozen major figures whose fame or infamy shaped family fortunes and is interwoven with an […]
The Great Transition: Political and Social Change in the Republic of China (Hoover Press Publication)

March 22, 2015

This book concerns government and politics in Taiwan under the rule of the Chinese Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT). The KMT forces, defeated in China’s civil war of 1947-49, retreated to Taiwan to form the Republic of China, representing the authority they salvaged from the mainland. The KMT regime has exercised authoritarian rule over the […]
Taiwan: Beyond the Economic Miracle (Taiwan in the Modern World (M.E. Sharpe Hardcover))

March 22, 2015

This volume arises from a major conference on issues of importance to the future of Taiwan and the region. With contributions by scholars from Taiwan and the West, the book is divided into sections on: political reform and development on Taiwan, Taiwan’s changing political economy, social and environmental issues on Taiwan, Taiwan external relations and […]
China’s Dilemma: The Taiwan Issue

March 22, 2015

China’s Dilemma is the first major study of the web of international relations between the US, China, and Taiwan. China has long hesitated integration with its island neighbor, preferring instead to focus on internal modernization and reform. Taiwan, on the other hand, has forced the issue, endlessly reworking and restating its policy towards China. The […]

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