Taiwanese Products
Politics in Taiwan
Politics in Taiwan is an accessible and highly readable survey of the Taiwanese political situation covering 1949 to the present. With a focus on the issue of democratisation, Shelley Rigger covers Taiwan's complicated, and unique, political history.
Contemporary Taiwanese Cultural Nationalism
Drawing on a wide range of Chinese historical and contemporary texts, this book addresses diverse subjects including nationalist literature; language ideology; the crafting of a national history and the impact of Japanese colonialism.
Doctors Within Borders
This book explores Japan's "scientific colonialism" through a careful study of the changing roles of Taiwanese doctors under Japanese colonial rule.
Framing the Bride
With a wedding impending, the Taiwanese bride-to-be turns to bridal photographers, makeup artists, and hair stylists to transform her image beyond recognition. They give her fairer skin, eyes like a Western baby doll, and gowns inspired by sources from Victorian England to MTV.
Is Taiwan Chinese?
The "one China" policy officially supported by the People's Republic of China, the United States, and other countries asserts that there is only one China and Taiwan is a part of it. The debate over whether the people of Taiwan are Chinese or independently Taiwanese is, Melissa J.
Discovering Nature
A description of the extraordinary transformations which have taken place in Chinese and Taiwanese responses to the environment across the twentieth century.