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Book SynopsisMost colonies became independent countries after the end of World War II, while few of them became modernized even after decades of their independence. Taiwan is one of the few to become a modern state with remarkable achievements in its economic, socio-cultural, and political development.
In 1921, Taiwanese intellectuals initiated a Petition Movement for the Establishment of a Taiwanese Parliament under the colonial government. Leaders of the enlightenment also established the Taiwan Cultural Association (TCA) on October 17, 1921. These two movements led to a series of socio-cultural, political, and economic developments during the past century. This book addresses the path and trajectory of the emergence of Taiwan from a colony to a modern state in the past century. It contains four major sections on identity and political developments and explores international relations, economic development. educational and societal development, and culture and literature development.
This thorough exploration will prove invaluable to graduate and undergraduate students in Taiwan history, literature, and the cultural and political economy of development as well as students studying East Asia. It offers the same wealth of information to researchers and practitioners in Taiwan-China-US trilateral relations and in cultural anthropology and practices in East Asia politics and business.
Trade Review‘Peter Chow is to be congratulated for assembling this collection of fascinating studies of various aspects of Taiwanese politics, sociology, culture and economics during the past century. The chapters include analyses of aspects of Taiwanese history hitherto little discussed in Anglophone literature, thus making an important and original contribution to the international field of interdisciplinary Taiwan studies.’ -- Edward Vickers, International Journal of Asian Studies
‘The combined scholarship published in A Century of Development in Taiwan: From Colony to Modern State
is a well-timed overview of – and introduction to – the changes and challenges faced by Taiwan in the past and in contemporary times.’ -- Edwin Pietersma, International Institute for Asian Studies
‘In this impressive collection, leading Taiwanese and international scholars provide a comprehensive assessment of Taiwan over the last century. From multiple disciplinary perspectives, they tell the tale of its remarkable and tumultuous transformation from a Japanese colony with an agrarian economy, an unequal society, and no political autonomy to today’s Taiwan, with its advanced economy, vibrant liberal democracy, equitable and inclusive multi-ethnic society, distinct cultural identity, and robust, if contested, international status.’ -- Jacques deLisle, University of Pennsylvania, US
Table of ContentsContents: Foreword: learning history xii Edward Friedman Foreword xviii Masahiro Wakabayashi Preface and acknowledgment xxi PART I INTRODUCTION 1 From colony to modern state: an overview of Taiwan’s path of development 2 Peter C.Y. Chow PART II TAIWANESE IDENTITY, POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT, AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 2 Taiwan’s international relations 17 June Teufel Dreyer 3 From a province to a sovereign state: Taiwan’s political changes as reflected in the three critical years 1951, 1971 and 1991 40 Yi-Shen Chen 4 Rethinking Taiwanese ethnicity: notes on recent historical scholarship 57 Lung-Chih Chang 5 Identity in formation and transformation: dynamics of national identity change after Taiwan’s democratization 70 Shiau-chi Shen PART III ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SINCE THE 1920S 6 Taiwan’s industrialization and Southeast Asia during the Japanese period: a miracle growth in prewar Taiwan 92 Frank S.T. Hsiao 7 The path of Taiwan’s industrial development: from follower to innovator 146 Peter C.Y. Chow 8 Money and banking in Taiwan: country identity and the top trade partner 176 Hong-Jen Abraham Lin PART IV SOCIETAL AND EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 9 The rise and fall of civil society movements in Taiwan: 1920–2020 194 Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao 10 A century of colonial education by Japan and the KMT/ ROC party-state, 1898–1997: a comparative study of the problems of Taiwan’s national identity 217 Wan-yao Chou 11 Transformation of women’s status in Taiwan, 1920–2020 240 Doris T. Chang PART V LITERATURE AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TAIWAN 12 The rise and fall of cultural theatre and new theatre, from the 1920s to the 1960s 263 Yin-Chen Kang 13 Modern Taiwan Literature of Taiwan: between China and the world 286 Michelle Yeh 14 Hybrid theatre: the origin and development of creative Taiwanese opera 302 Jasmine Yu-Hsing Chen 15 A century of struggle over Taiwan’s cultural self-consciousness: the life and afterlife of Chiang Wei-shui and the Taiwan Cultural Association 320 Fang-long Shih Corresponding table of Wade-Giles/Taigi and Pinyin romanization of Chinese names and terms 353 Index
