{"product_id":"the-global-silicon-valley-home-9780804752152","title":"The Global Silicon Valley Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Global Silicon Valley Home\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe International History Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Preface: All Leaves Fall Back to Their Roots\t000  Memories and Identities  Chapter 1. Returning Home in the Information Age\t000  Chapter 2. Toward the Trans-Pacific Home\t000  People  Chapter 3. Made By Taiwan: The Trans-Pacific Commuters\t000  Chapter 4. The Emerging Transnational Family Life\t000  Chapter 5. Transcultural Lifestyles Across the Pacific Rim\t000  Communities  Chapter 6. Ranch 99: A Virtual Chinatown\t000  Chapter 7. Heaven and Hell: Silicon Valley in Hsinchu Science Park\t000  Chapter 8. Building a Global City in My Backyard\t000  Homes  Chapter 9. Mirror Homes\t000  Chapter 10. Homes Across the Water\t000  Chapter 11. Leaving and Returning in Trans-Pacific Commuter Culture\t000  Notes\t000  References\t000  Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405562945879,"sku":"9780804752152","price":52.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804752152.jpg?v=1730492843","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-global-silicon-valley-home-9780804752152","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}