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1. CultureShock! Taiwan: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Culture Shock! Guides) by Chris Bates, Ling-Li Bates | |
Paperback: 292
Pages
(2008-09)
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Editorial Review Product Description A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette Customer Reviews (17)
Great book if you want to learn about Taiwan and its culture!
Outdated and not worth the price
not what I was looking for..
Must read before your first visit to Taiwan (or any other foreign country for that matter)
Good introduction to Taiwan; can be read through quickly |
2. Tanners of Taiwan: Life Strategies and National Culture (Westview Case Studies in Anthropology) by Scott Simon | |
Paperback: 192
Pages
(2005-03-04)
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Editorial Review Product Description Tanners of Taiwan is an ethnography of identity construction setin the leather-tanning communities of Southern Taiwan. Through lifehistory analysis and ethnographic observation, Simon examines what itmeans to be Chinese - or alternatively Taiwanese - in contemporaryTaiwan. Under forty years of martial law from 1947 to 1987, the ChineseNationalist Party tried to create a Chinese identity in Taiwan throughideological campaigns that reached deep into families, schools andworkplaces. They justified their rule through a development narrativethat Chinese culture and good policy contributed to the prosperity ofthe Taiwan miracle. These ideological claims and cultural identities,however, have never been fully accepted in Southern Taiwan. Thisethnography is the first to document from the ground level how thoseclaims have been contested, and how a new Taiwanese identity has beenconstructed since democratization. Tanners of Taiwan providesmore than a description of workplaces in Taiwan. Looking at thedifferent perspectives of tanners, women managers, and workers, itdemonstrates how cultural and other identities are constructed throughdynamics of power and political economy. A small, affordable case studies book to be assigned with a coretextbook in introductory anthropology courses. Shows how the US readeris connected to the seemingly distant lives of Taiwanese tanners. Simonfollows hides from the US to tanneries in Taiwan, then elsewhere to bemade into shoes and other leather goods, and then back to the consumerin the US - demonstrating concretely the notion of "globalinterconnectedness." Anchored in personal observation and ethnographic detail, the book makesvery tangible such otherwise abstract notions as "national identity" and"global integration." |
3. Succeed in Business: Taiwan (Culture Shock! Success Secrets to Maximize Business) by Kevin Chambers | |
Paperback:
Pages
(1999-10-01)
list price: US$13.95 Isbn: 1558684212 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Each "Culture Shock!" title is written by someone who's lived and worked in the country, and each book is packed with practical, accurate, and enjoyable information to help you find your way and feel at home. Customer Reviews (1)
Easy to read....really useful! |
4. The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan | |
Hardcover: 320
Pages
(2004-03)
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Editorial Review Product Description Focusing on such broadly appealing topics as baseball, movies, gay and lesbian identity, television shows, and night markets, the contributors seek to introduce Taiwanese culture to a broad readership. In lively, non-technical prose, they approach their topics from a variety of disciplines in ways that will not only give students a comprehensive view of Taiwanese life, but also provide them with a range of theoretical perspectives with which to explore this fascinating nation. Customer Reviews (1)
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5. Is Taiwan Chinese?: The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities (Interdisciplinary Studies of China, 2) by Melissa J. Brown | |
Paperback: 349
Pages
(2004-02-04)
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A Fundamentally Sound Work, in Need of Focus
The Description of this book is Misleading.
The answers I was looking for !
Very insightful !
Been Waiting For This! |
6. Culture and Customs of Taiwan by Gary Marvin Davison, Barbara E. Reed | |
Hardcover: 280
Pages
(1998-09-30)
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Best Book
Easy to read. |
7. Re-writing Culture in Taiwan (Asia's Transformations) | |
Hardcover: 240
Pages
(2008-12-24)
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Editorial Review Product Description This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of ‘Taiwan Studies’, and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future. As the study of Taiwan shifts from being a provincial back-water of sinology to an area in its own (albeit not sovereign) right, a combination of established and up and coming scholars working in the field of East Asian studies offer a re-reading and re-writing of culture in Taiwan. They show that sustained critical analysis of contemporary Taiwan using issues such as trauma, memory, history, tradition, modernity, post-modernity provides a useful point of departure for thinking through similar problematics and issues elsewhere in the world. Re-writing Culture in Taiwan is a multidisciplinary book with its own distinctive collective voice which will appeal to anyone interested in Taiwan. With chapters on nationalism, anthropology, cultural studies, media studies, religion and museum studies, the breadth of ground covered is truly comprehensive. |
8. Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society) | |
Paperback: 424
Pages
(2006-01-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Because the island of Taiwan spent the first half of the century as a colony of Japan and the second half in an umbilical relationship to China, its literature challenges basic assumptions about what constitutes a “national literature.” Several contributors directly address the methodological and epistemological issues involved in writing about “Taiwan literature.” Other contributors investigate the cultural and political grounds from which specific genres and literary movements emerged. Still others explore themes of history and memory in Taiwan literature and tropes of space and geography, looking at representations of boundaries as well as the boundary-crossing global flows of commodities and capital. Like Taiwan’s history, modern Taiwan literature is rife with conflicting legacies and impulses. Writing Taiwan reveals a sense of its richness and diversity to English-language readers. Contributors. Yomi Braester, Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Fangming Chen, Lingchei Letty Chen, Chaoyang Liao, Ping-hui Liao, Joyce C. H. Liu, Kim-chu Ng, Carlos Rojas, Xiaobing Tang, Ban Wang, David Der-wei Wang, Gang Gary Xu, Michelle Yeh, Fenghuang Ying |
9. Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island (Film and Culture Series) by Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell Davis | |
Paperback: 312
Pages
(2005-06-10)
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Editorial Review Product Description Focusing on the work of four contemporary filmmakers -- Ang Lee, Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang -- the authors explore how these filmmakers broke from tradition, creating a cinema that is both personal and insistent on examining Taiwan's complex history. Featuring stills, anecdotes, and close readings of films, the authors consider the influence of Hong Kong and martial arts films, directors' experiments with autobiography, the shifting fortunes of the Taiwanese film industry, and Taiwan cinema in the context of international cinema's aesthetics and business practices. Customer Reviews (1)
Betzee |
10. Discovering Nature: Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan by Robert P. Weller | |
Hardcover: 198
Pages
(2006-02-27)
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11. Popular Culture in Taiwan: Charismatic Modernity (Routledge Research on Taiwan Series) | |
Hardcover: 208
Pages
(2010-11-26)
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Editorial Review Product Description The growing field of popular culture studies in Taiwan can be divided into two distinct academic trends; a different analytical framework is used to examine either locally oriented popular culture or transnational pop culture. This volume combine these two academic trends, firstly by revealing that localized popular culture in Taiwan is in many ways a merging of Chinese, Japanese, American, and indigenous cultures and therefore is a form of hybridity that arose long before the term became popular. Secondly, the chapters show that the transnational character of Taiwan’s pop culture is one of the more important ways that it distinguishes itself from mainland China. In other words, it is precisely Taiwan’s transnational hybrid character that helps to define it as a distinctive local space. The contributors explore how traditional Chinese influences modern localized lives in Taiwan, localized identity, culture, and politics as a contested domain with Chinese and traditional Taiwanese identities and Taiwan’s localization process as contesting Taiwan’s gravitation towards globalized Western culture. Including chapters on baseball, poetry, pop music, puppets and Harry Potter, Popular Culture in Taiwan is an accessible and stimulating read for those studying the culture and society of Taiwan and China as well as cultural studies more generally. |
12. Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society) by June Yip | |
Paperback: 368
Pages
(2004-01-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Yip traces a distinctly Taiwanese sense of self vis-à-vis China, Japan, and the West through two of the island’s most important cultural movements: the hsiang-t’u (or "nativist") literature of the 1960s and 1970s, and the Taiwanese New Cinema of the 1980s and 1990s. At the heart of the book are close readings of the work of the hsiang-t’u writer Hwang Chun-ming and the New Cinema filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien. Key figures in Taiwan’s assertion of a national identity separate and distinct from China, both artists portray in vibrant detail daily life on the island. Through Hwang’s and Hou’s work and their respective artistic movements, Yip explores "the imagining of a nation" on the local, national, and global levels. In the process, she exposes a perceptible shift away from traditional models of cultural authenticity toward a more fluid, postmodern hybridity—an evolution that reflects both Taiwan’s peculiar multicultural reality and broader trends in global culture. |
13. Literary Culture in Taiwan: Martial Law to Market Law by Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang | |
Hardcover: 288
Pages
(2004-10)
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An encompasing socio-intellectual history of TW literature |
14. Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan | |
Hardcover: 285
Pages
(2007-08)
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Editorial Review Product Description The central theme of this volume is "refracted modernity"--the recursive and transferable nature of modernity--in the context of colonialism. Modernity and identity in Taiwanese visual culture emerged in the cross-cultural complexity engendered by Japanese colonization. Their formation involves a range of interdependent cultural transfers and appropriations between Europe, Japan, and Taiwan. Viewed in terms of refracted modernity, the state and product of localization/appropriation appears in an eclectic manner and is often characterized by the term "hybrid." The notion of hybridity describes the complex state that results from the continuous dissemination and translation of cultures in colonial situations, thus revising the one-dimensional historical analytical models of colonialism. The model presented in this volume instead stresses original and creative aspects and renounces the notion of imitation, a judgment often imposed by the Eurocentric view.Offering many examples of hybrid expressions that render Taiwanese visual culture unique and attractive, the case studies collectively make a strong argument for revising the traditional positioning of colonialism while offering a thought-provoking perspective on Taiwan's surge forward as a major force in contemporary art today. Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan will be of substantial interest to historians of Taiwan, China, and Japan; art historians of Chinese and Japanese art; and scholars of colonialism, decolonization, modernism, and modernity in general. Readers in the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, visual culture, and women's studies will find its essays timely and highly informative. |
15. The Legal Culture and System of Taiwan by Chang-fo Lo | |
Hardcover: 264
Pages
(2006-09-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description This convenient guide, written by a scholar-practitioner who is both Dean of Law at the National Taiwan University and a panelist in the World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Body, is an ideal introduction and practical handbook for anyone involved in a transaction that raises issues in Taiwanese law. After detailed summaries of Taiwan's system of government, its court system, sources of law, and administrative law and procedure, the author covers practice and procedure in such fields of legal activity as the following: International lawyers will find all the legal situations most likely to arise in the course of transactions connected to Taiwan covered expertly and knowledgeably in this very useful book. It is also valuable to students and scholars for its special insights into issues of comparative law. Customer Reviews (1)
Taiwanese Legel Culture |
16. Culture of Clothing Among Taiwan Aborigines: Tradition, Meaning, Images (T'Ai-WAN Wen Hua Chih Mei) by Saalih Lee | |
Hardcover: 434
Pages
(1998-12)
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17. Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan (Publications on Asia of the School of International Studies,) by Stevan Harrell | |
Hardcover: 234
Pages
(1982-07)
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Pedestrian 1970s ethnography of atomized Taiwanese village Harrelldiscusses the social and economic co-operation of unrelated persons, the simplification of ancestor worship in a locale without established lineage organizations, and the relatively higher status of women in a place where the household is the predominant unit of social organization. Rates of uxorilocal marriage are higher (15%) and rates of minor marriage are lower (35%) than in peasant villages in which the lineage is the major unit of social organization. Harrell attributes the relative lack of "dependency" symptoms (stratification and comprador capitalism) to the expansion of the (manufacturing) core to such villages, while avoiding examination of politics, local, national, or international. (In earlier work,he creditedJapanese development of transport infrastructure and agriculture for providing the base for decentralized industrialdevelopment.) ... Read more |
18. Taiwan (Cultures of the World) by Azra Moiz, Janice Wu | |
Library Binding: 144
Pages
(2006-11-15)
list price: US$42.79 Isbn: 076142069X Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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19. Arts & Culture in Taiwan by B. Kaulbach, B. Proksch | |
Paperback: 128
Pages
(1984-12)
list price: US$25.00 Isbn: 089986368X Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
20. Law and Local Society in Late Imperial China: Northern Taiwan in the Nineteenth Century (Law, Society & Culture in China) by Mark Allee | |
Hardcover: 360
Pages
(1994-12-01)
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