Dafydd Fell - Taiwan Studies Revisited

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. The contributors then discuss their methodologies, fieldwork and arguments, as well as how their work was received at the time. They also go on to reflect on their chosen methods and core findings, assessing whether they have stood the test of time. Reflecting the diversity of the Taiwan Studies field, subjects covered in this volume include sociology, musicology, linguistics, comparative politics, international relations and anthropology. As such, this comprehensive overview adopts a distinctly interdisciplinary approach to understanding Taiwan.

Painting a picture of the changing state of international Taiwan Studies through the work of leading scholars, this book will be invaluable to students and scholars of Taiwan Studies, Chinese Studies and Asian politics, culture and society.

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.

ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH ON TAIWAN SERIES

The Routledge Research on Taiwan Series seeks to publish quality research on all aspects of Taiwan studies. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the books will cover topics such as politics, economic development, culture, society, anthropology and history.

This new book series will include the best possible scholarship from the social sciences and the humanities and welcomes submissions from established authors in the field as well as from younger authors. In addition to research monographs and edited volumes general works or textbooks with a broader appeal will be considered.

The Series is advised by an international Editorial Board and edited by Dafydd Fell of the Centre of Taiwan Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Series Editor: Dafydd Fell, SOAS, UK

26. A New Era in Democratic Taiwan

Trajectories and Turning Points in Politics and Cross-Strait Relations

Edited by Jonathan Sullivan and Chun-yi Lee

27. Social Movements in Taiwans Democratic Transition

Linking Activists to the Changing Political Environment

Yun Fan

28. Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context

Being and Becoming

Edited by Bi-yu Chang and Pei-yin Lin

30. Young Adults in Urban China and Taiwan

Aspirations, Expectations, and Life Choices

Dsire Remmert

31. Taiwan Studies Revisited

Edited by Dafydd Fell and Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao

For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/asianstudies/series/RRTAIWAN

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Melissa J. Brown is Managing Editor of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (HJAS), published by the Harvard-Yenching Institute. She was on the faculty at the University of Cincinnati (19972001) and Stanford University (20012011) before coming to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard in 2011 and joining the HJAS staff in 2014. Browns research examines identities and nationalism, marriage and kinship, footbinding, household economies and cosmopolitanism. Her publications include Is Taiwan Chinese? The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities (2004), Explaining Culture Scientifically (2008), Changing Authentic Identities: Evidence from Taiwan and China (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 16, 2010), Marriage Mobility and Footbinding in Pre-1949 Rural China (Journal of Asian Studies 71.4, 2012), Collective Identities, Shifting Population Membership, and Niche Construction Theory: Implications from Taiwanese and Chinese Empirical Evidence (in Population in the Human Sciences, Oxford University Press, 2015), Dutiful Help: Masking Rural Womens Economic Contributions (in Transforming Patriarchy, University of Washington Press, 2016) and Economic Correlates of Footbinding: Implications for the Economic Importance of Chinese Daughters (PLoS ONE 13.9, 2018).

Dafydd J. 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. In 2004 he helped establish the European Association of Taiwan Studies. He has published numerous articles on political parties and electioneering in Taiwan. His first book was Party Politics in Taiwan (Routledge, 2005), which analysed party change in the first 15 years of multi-party competition. His second book was Government and Politics in Taiwan (Rouledge, 2011) and the second edition was published in early 2018. He co-edited Migration to and from Taiwan (Routledge, 2013) and his next edited volume, Social Movements in Taiwan under Ma Ying-jeou (Routledge) was published in 2017. He is also the book series editor for the Routledge Research on Taiwan Series.

Thomas B. Gold is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1981. He also served as Associate Dean of International and Area Studies and Chair of the Center for Chinese Studies at Berkeley. From 2000 to 2016 he was Executive Director of the Inter-University Program in Chinese Language Studies. Tom became interested in China as an undergraduate at Oberlin College. After graduating he taught English at Tunghai University in Taiwan. He then received a Masters in Regional Studies-East Asia and a PhD in Sociology, both from Harvard University. In February 1979, while at Harvard he was a member of the first group of American exchange students to study in China, spending a year at Fudan University in Shanghai. Professor Golds research focuses on many aspects of the societies of East Asia, primarily Taiwan and mainland China. In the largest sense, he examines the process of the emergence of the increasingly empowered and autonomous individual and a private sphere in authoritarian societies. Specific topics include youth, civil society, guanxi, micro-scale private business, popular culture and identity. His book, State and Society in the Taiwan Miracle (1986) is a standard work in the field. He continues to research social change in Taiwan since the end of Martial Law in 1987.