Taiwan in the Twentieth Century
A Retrospective View

Analyses change in Taiwan during the whole of the twentieth century.

Richard Louis Edmonds (Edited by), Steven M. Goldstein (Edited by)

9780521003438, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 23 August 2001

212 pages
23.3 x 15.4 x 1.1 cm, 0.312 kg

"Scholars in Taiwan began looking closely at the Japanese colonial era between ten and twenty years ago. This interesting and broad-ranging volume is the first to bring that research out in a widely accessible, English-language forum. Taiwan in the Twentieth Century makes a very useful and original contribution to the field of Taiwan studies. Historians and social scientists alike will enjoy the book, which would also be useful for teaching courses in the history and historiography of Taiwan, China, and imperial Japan." The Journal of Asian Studies

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.

Notes on contributors
Map
Taiwan in the twentieth century: an introduction: 1. Aspects of the Taiwanese landscape in the twentieth century Richard Louis Edmonds
2. Transforming Taiwan's economic structure in the twentieth century Cheng Tun-jen
3. Taiwan in the twentieth century: model or victim? Development problems in a small Asian economy Christopher Howe
4. Taiwan's social changes in the patterns of social solidarity in the twentieth century Dung-sheng Chen
5. Constructing a native consciousness: Taiwan literature in the twentieth century Angelina Chun-chu Yee
6. Political development in twentieth-century Taiwan: state-building, regime transformation and the construction of national identity Yun-han Chu and Jih-wen Lin
7. Taiwan in Japan's security considerations Soeya Yoshihide
8. An uncertain relationship: the United States, Taiwan and the Taiwan Relations Act Steven M. Goldstein and Randall Schriver
9. Taiwan and South-East Asia: the limits to pragmatic diplomacy Michael Leifer
Index
Errata.

Subject Areas: Economics [KC], International relations [JPS], Sociology & anthropology [JH], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], Asian history [HBJF]