ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF CONTEMPORARY TAIWAN
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan offers a comprehensive overview of both contemporary Taiwan and the Taiwan studies field. Each contribution summarizes the major findings in the field and highlights long-term trends, recent observations and possible future developments in Taiwan.
Written by an international team of experts, the chapters included in the volume form an accessible and fascinating insight into contemporary Taiwan. Up-to-date, interdisciplinary and academically rigorous, the Handbook will be of interest to students, academics, policymakers and others in search of reliable information on Taiwanese politics, economics, culture and society.
Gunter Schubert is the founder and director of the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT) at the University of Tbingen in Germany, and holds the Chair of Greater China Studies at the University of Tbingens Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Germany.
ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF CONTEMPORARY TAIWAN
Edited by Gunter Schubert
First published 2016
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Names: Schubert, Gunter, 1963 editor.
Title: Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan / edited by Gunter Schubert.
Description: New York, NY: Routledge, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015046795| ISBN 9781138781870 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315769523 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Taiwan--Handbooks, manuals, etc. | TaiwanCivilizationHandbooks, manuals, etc. | TaiwanForeign relationsHandbooks, manuals, etc.
Classification: LCC DS799.R68 2016 | DDC 951.24905dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015046795
ISBN: 978-1-138-78187-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-76952-3 (ebk)
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Contents
Gunter Schubert
Part I
Political history
Ann Heylen
Wan-Yao Chou
Thomas B. Gold
J. Bruce Jacobs
Stefan Fleischauer
Part II
Government and politics
Dafydd J. Fell
Shelley Rigger
Timothy S. Rich and Jonathan Sullivan
Stefan Braig
Christopher R. Hughes
Jau-Yuan Hwang
Jens Damm
Part III
Political economy
Joseph Wong
Gunter Schubert
Tse-Kang Leng
Part IV
Society and culture
Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao and Yu-Yuan Kuan
Chun-Chieh Chi
Ming-Sho Ho
Simona A. Grano
Yun Fan and Wei-Ting Wu
Andr Lalibert
Yeun-Wen Ku and James Cherng-Tay Hsueh
Ping-Hui Liao
Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley
Part V
Cross-Strait relations
Yu-Shan Wu
Pei-Shan Lee and Yun-Han Chu
Jieh-Min Wu
Isabelle Cheng
Part VI
International relations and security
Kwei-Bo Huang
Cheng-Yi Lin
Mu-Min Chen
Gudrun Wacker
Richard Bush
Colin Alexander
Colin Alexander is Senior Lecturer in Political Communications at Nottingham Trent University, UK. In 2013 he was a Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) scholar studying Taiwans public diplomacy. His current research focuses on political communications in colonial and postcolonial societies and involves comparative studies of Taiwan and other Asia states. Recent publications include China and Taiwan in Central America: Engaging Foreign Publics in Diplomacy (2014) and The Communication of International Development Assistance: The Case of the Taiwan International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF), Journal of Global Governance (2015).
Stefan Braig is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Department of Chinese and Korean Studies, University of Tbingen, Germany. He is also Managing Director of the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan A CCK Foundation Overseas Center (CCKF-ERCCT). He specializes in Taiwanese domestic politics, primarily local politics. His current research focuses on the local party organization of the Kuomintang in central and southern Taiwan.
Richard Bush is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and the holder of the Chen-fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies. He also directs the Center for East Asia Policy Studies. He has served for 19 years in the US government, in the House of Representatives, the National Intelligence Council, and as Chairman and Managing Director of the American Institute in Taiwan. He has written several books on Taiwan and cross-Strait relations, including Untying the Knot: Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait (2005) and A War Like No Other: The Truth About Chinas Challenge to America (2007).
Mu-Min Chen is Associate Professor and Chair at the Graduate Institute of International Politics, and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies on South Asia and the Middle East, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan. He specializes in international security theory, Chinese foreign policy, TaiwanChina relations, and regional politics and security in South Asia. Major publications include India and China in the Emerging Dynamics of East Asia (co-edited, 2015), and New Perspectives on South Asia (in Chinese, co-edited, 2015).
Isabelle Cheng is a Senior Lecturer in East Asian and International Development Studies at the School of Languages and Area Studies of the University of Portsmouth, UK. She is also a Research Associate at the Centre of Taiwan Studies of the School of Oriental and African Studies. She serves on the Board of the European Association of Taiwan Studies. Her research interests are marriage migration, citizenship, multiculturalism and gender.
Chun-Chieh Chi is a Professor at the Department of Ethnic Relations and Culture and head of the Indigenous Culture and Communication Center, National Dong-Hwa University, Taiwan. His current research focuses on indigenous land and resource issues in Taiwan, indigenous peoples movements in Taiwan, and indigenous vulnerability and resilience under climate change. Publications include The Green, Green Landscape of Home: The Rejection of Industrial Growth and Embracing Green Growth in Yi-Lan County, Taiwan (2014) and The Idea of Country: Reframing post-disaster recovery in indigenous Taiwan settings, (2014, co-authored).
