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Book SynopsisThe economic boom of the 1990s that led to the rapid rise of computer hardware and software companies (on both sides of the Pacific Rim) also led to the rise of a trans-Pacific commuter culture, a culture in which thousands of Taiwanese-born high-tech engineers realized that they could greatly increase their career opportunities by establishing a life-style that allowed them and their families to regularly commute between two homes, one in Silicon Valley and the other in Taiwan.
The Global Silicon Valley Home takes a close look at how participants in the jet-set, wired-to-the-Net, trans-Pacific commuter culture have invented new ways of thinking about how their homes reflect their personal identities.
Trade Review"Chang's nuanced readings of her subjects' self-narratives and physical settings provide a new wealth of detail concerning the material manifestations of mobile lives." --
The International History ReviewTable of ContentsContents Preface: All Leaves Fall Back to Their Roots 000 Memories and Identities Chapter 1. Returning Home in the Information Age 000 Chapter 2. Toward the Trans-Pacific Home 000 People Chapter 3. Made By Taiwan: The Trans-Pacific Commuters 000 Chapter 4. The Emerging Transnational Family Life 000 Chapter 5. Transcultural Lifestyles Across the Pacific Rim 000 Communities Chapter 6. Ranch 99: A Virtual Chinatown 000 Chapter 7. Heaven and Hell: Silicon Valley in Hsinchu Science Park 000 Chapter 8. Building a Global City in My Backyard 000 Homes Chapter 9. Mirror Homes 000 Chapter 10. Homes Across the Water 000 Chapter 11. Leaving and Returning in Trans-Pacific Commuter Culture 000 Notes 000 References 000 Index 000
