Taiwan in the Twenty-First Century

by Li, Xiaobing; Pan, Zuohong; Li, Xiaobing; Zhang, Jie; Lu, Shuming; Luo, Jing; Lee, Yueh-Ting; Wang, Da-You; Li, Xiaoxiao; Zhou, Mei; Li, Liying; Chen, Zhiyuan; Kuo, Janet Yun-wei; Wang, Cheng; Tian, Xiansheng; Li, Jieli; Nie, G Mac; Wang, Enbao; Harvey, D

• ISBN13: 9780761826293
• ISBN10: 0761826297
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-11
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Taiwan in the Twenty-first Century consists of sixteen original essays written by American, Taiwanese, and Chinese professors. The contributors' distinctive multidisciplinary approach refreshed the study of contemporary Taiwan and shed new light on many important questions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Note on Romanization	ix
1. Introduction: Taiwan's Experience, Challenge, and Future	1	(14)
LI Xiaobing
Part One Culture and Tradition
2. Collectivism or Individualism: An Analysis of Chinese and Taiwanese Interactive Culture	15	(14)
ZHANG Jie
3. Buddhism as Spiritual Communication in Contemporary Taiwanese Society	29	(20)
LU Shuming
4. A Comparative Study on "Tongyong Pinyin" and "Hanyu Pinyin" - A Few Considerations on Chinese Romanization	49	(14)
LUO Jing
Part Two Ethnicity, Society and Education
5. Aboriginal People in Taiwan, Continental China and the Americas: Ethnic Inquiry into Common Root and Ancestral Connection	63	(20)
LEE Yueh-Ting and WANG Da-You
6. A Comparative Study on Minority Women in Taiwan and Xinjiang	83	(8)
LI Xiaoxiao and ZHOU Mei
7. Suicide in Taiwan	91	(18)
LI LiYing
8. Education in Taiwan	109	(12)
CHEN Zhiyuan
9. Educational Reform in Taiwan	121	(18)
KUO Janet Yun-wei
Part Three Economy and Political Reforms
10. Democracy and Economic Growth: A Taiwan Case Study	139	(28)
PAN Zuohong
11. Income Distribution during Taiwan's Industrialization: A Case of L-curve Versus Inverted U-curve of Kuznets	167	(24)
WANG Cheng
12. A Lesson to Learn: The Origins and Development of the Constitutional Reform in Taiwan	191	(24)
TIAN Xiansheng
13. Democratic Transition in Taiwan: The Paradox of "Taiwanization"	215	(16)
LI Jieli
Part Four US-Taiwan-China Relations
14. A Game Theory Analysis of the Taiwan Issue: Prospect and Possible Outcomes	231	(28)
NIE G. Mac and WANG Enbao
15. United States-People's Republic of China-Taiwan Relations: The Zero Sum Game	259	(12)
HARVEY Rickey D.
16. Nationalism vs. Communism: Who Lost China?	271	(10)
FOX Andrew S.
17. The Taiwan Issue in Sino-US Rapprochement Negotiations	281	(38)
XIA Yafeng
Note on the Contributors	319