Taiwan in the Twentieth Century: A Retrospective View

by Edited by Richard Louis Edmonds , Steven M. Goldstein

• ISBN13: 9780521003438
• ISBN10: 0521003431
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book brings together a group of experts on Taiwan who attempt to analyse change on this dynamic island during the whole of the twentieth century. Thus, in contrast to many works on Taiwan, the nine papers show just how important the Japanese colonial antecedents were to the formation of today's Taiwan and help us to understand the complexity of the problems this island will face in the twenty-first century. The work of the various authors, many of them young Taiwanese, also show clearly that a simple divide of Taiwan's twentieth century history with the retrocession to Chinese rule in 1945 is not adequate for understanding the development of this island.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
Map	x
Taiwan in the Twentieth Century: An Introduction	xi
Aspects of the Taiwanese Landscape in the 20th Century	1	(18)
Richard Louis Edmonds
Transforming Taiwan's Economic Structure in the 20th Century	19	(18)
Cheng Tun-Jen
Taiwan in the 20th Century: Model or Victim? Development Problems in a Small Asian Economy	37	(24)
Christopher Howe
Taiwan's Social Changes in the Patterns of Social Solidarity in the 20th Century	61	(22)
Dung-Sheng Chen
Constructing a Native Consciousness: Taiwan Literature in the 20th Century	83	(19)
Angelina Chun-Chu Yee
Political Development in 20th Century Taiwan: State-Building, Regime Transformation and the Construction of National Identity	102	(28)
Yun-Han Chu
Jih-Wen Lin
Taiwan in Japan's Security Considerations	130	(17)
Soeya Yoshihide
An Uncertain Relationship: The United States, Taiwan and the Taiwan Relations Act	147	(26)
Steven M. Goldstein
Randall Schriver
Taiwan and South-East Asia: The Limits to Pragmatic Diplomacy	173	(14)
Michael Leifer
Index	187	(6)
Errata	193