Carsten Storm - Connecting Taiwan: Participation - Integration - Impacts

Taiwan has often been characterised as an isolated society in its search for sovereignty and security. Its contact with the world in an era of globalisation and post-modernity, however, has increasingly led to Taiwanese actors successfully participating in many regional and global fields.

In this book an international team of scholars present cases studies and theoretical debates emphasising agency in coping with the effects of globalisation. In so doing, they contest the image of Taiwans marginalisation and seek to understand it in terms of its connectedness, whether globally, regionally or trans-nationally. Taking a multi-disciplinary, comparative approach, it covers themes such as markets and trading, diplomacy and nation-branding, collective action, media, literature and film, and religious mission. It thus combines perspectives from several disciplines including media studies, sociology, political science and studies in religion.

Using Taiwan as an example of how to conceptualise connectivity and think differently about comparative studies, this book will be useful for students and scholars of Asian Politics and Cultural Studies, as well as of Taiwan Studies more specifically.

Carsten Storm currently teaches at the Technische Universitt Dresden, Germany. He works on Chinese and Taiwanese literature and film and focuses on narrative and aesthetic strategies in creating meaning and coherence.

Series Editor: Dafydd Fell

SOAS, UK

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Participation Integration Impacts

Edited by Carsten Storm

First published 2018

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Bernadette Andreosso-OCallaghan holds the Jean Monnet Chair of Economic Integration at the Kemmy Business School of the University of Limerick (UL, Ireland), where she co-founded the Euro-Asia Centre in 1996, the first research centre dealing with contemporary Asian Studies in Ireland. She has been a Visiting Professor of East Asian Economics at the Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) and she has taught in various Asian Universities including Seoul National University (South Korea), Tsuda College (Tokyo, Japan) and Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok). She has published extensively in the following areas: comparative Europe-Asia economic integration, and economic growth and structural change in Asian countries, with a focus on East Asian countries. Her latest publications include: Asia-EU Relations MNEs Responses to an Uncertain Global Business Environment, Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, guest-edited special issue with Sebastian Bersick and Jacques Jaussaud, 2016, 34(2); Economic Policy Making in Asia: The Western vs Eastern Legacy of Philosophical and Economic Thought, in Malcolm Warner, The Diffusion of Western Economic Ideas in Asia, Chapter 21, pp. 377395 (Routledge, 2016) and The China-Taiwan economic relationship: Economic Integration and Normalization (with Qin Tang), in Bernadette Andreosso-OCallaghan, Jacques Jaussaud and Maria Bruna Zolin (eds), Economic Integration in Asia: Towards the Delineation of a Sustainable Path, pp. 5677 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Bi-yu Chang is Deputy Director of the Centre of Taiwan Studies and Senior Teaching Fellow at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her research interests are in the areas of cultural politics, nation-building, cultural identity and theatre. In recent years, the focus of her research has taken a spatial turn, to include place identity, spatial construction and cartographic representation. Since 2016, she has been researching the politics of and the exoticisation in Taiwans tourism, unpicking the intricate relationship between identity, place and power on a global scale. She is co-editor of and contributor to a number of books, and has published articles in journals both in Chinese and English. Her monograph Place, Identity and National Imagination in Postwar Taiwan was published in 2015 by Routledge. She is currently editing a new book on Global Gaze, Local Negotiation, and Identity Formation in Taiwan, which will be published in 2018.

Peter C. Y. Chow is Professor of Economics at the City University of New York. He was a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Contractual Consultant of the World Bank, a Visiting Scholar at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, National Taiwan University as well as Nagoya National University in Japan. He is specialised in trade and development, with special interest in comparative developments in latecomers of industrialisation in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition to more than 50 papers in journal articles and chapters of book, he has authored, co-authored and edited more than ten books. Among them, the book on