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  • Haunted Modernities

    Gender, Memory, and Placemaking in Postindustrial Taiwan

    by Dr. Anru Lee ...
    In 1973 twenty-five young women drowned in a ferry accident on their way to work in factories in Taiwan’s Kaohsiung Export Processing Zone. Their remains were recovered and interred collectively in what came to be called the Twenty-five Maiden Ladies Tomb. Without a husband’s ancestral hall where they would have been laid to rest, the spirits of these unmarried women were considered homeless and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Why Taiwan?

    Anthropological Perspectives

    Edited by Shuenn-der Yu, Anru Lee ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Taiwan Series
    This book considers why Taiwan matters independent of the China-centric paradigm by both examining anthropological research on Taiwan as well as how to study Taiwan anthropologically, re-asserting the ontological status of Taiwan as a legitimate object of scholarly inquiry. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Women in the New Taiwan

    Gender Roles and Gender Consciousness in a Changing Society

    by Catherine Farris, Lee Anru, Murray A. Rubinstein, An East Gate Book ...
    Taiwan's rapid socio-economic and political transformation has given rise to a gender-conscious middle class that is attempting to redefine the roles of women in society, to restructure relationship patterns, and to organize in groups outside the family unit. This book examines internal psychological processes and external societal processes as the feminist movement in Taiwan expands and new ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • One China, Many Taiwans

    The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism

    by Ian Rowen ...
    One China, Many Taiwans shows how tourism performs and transforms territory. In 2008, as the People's Republic of China pointed over a thousand missiles across the Taiwan Strait, it sent millions of tourists in the same direction with the encouragement of Taiwan's politicians and businesspeople. Contrary to the PRC's efforts to use tourism to incorporate Taiwan into an imaginary "One China," ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society

    Edited by Youna Kim ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society is an accessible and interdisciplinary resource that explores the formation and transformation of Korean culture and society.Each chapter provides a comprehensive and thought-provoking overview on key topics, including: compressed modernity, religion, educational migration, social class and inequality, popular culture, digitalisation, diasporic ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Oil and Water

    Being Han in Xinjiang

    by Tom Cliff ...
    For decades, China’s Xinjiang region has been the site of clashes between long-residing Uyghur and Han settlers. Up until now, much scholarly attention has been paid to state actions and the Uyghur’s efforts to resist cultural and economic repression. This has left the other half of the puzzle—the motivations and ambitions of Han settlers themselves—sorely understudied.With Oil and Water, ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Politics of Locality

    Making a Nation of Communities in Taiwan

    by Hsin-Yi Lu ...
    Series series East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
    During the mid-1990s, Taiwan witnessed a remarkable proliferation of historical writings and cultural movements pertaining to 'the local'. 'Place (difang)' and 'community (shequ)' became two ubiquitous terms in the lexicon of being Taiwanese. This book is a critical examination of the socio-historical condition in which the discourse of local diversity emerged and gradually permeated Taiwan's ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Connecting Taiwan

    Participation – Integration – Impacts

    Edited by Carsten Storm ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Taiwan Series
    Taiwan has often been characterised as an isolated society in its search for sovereignty and security. Its contact with the world in an era of globalization and post-modernity, however, has increasingly led to Taiwanese actors successfully participating in many regional and global fields.In this book an international team of scholars presents cases studies and theoretical debates emphasising ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Urban Villages in the New China

    Case of Shenzhen

    by Da Wei David Wang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Focusing on Shenzhen as a representation of the general urban village phenomenon in China, this book considers the impact of China’s economic reform on urbanization and urban villages over the past three decades. Shenzhen’s urban villages are some of the first of their kind in China, unique in their diversity and organizational capacity, but most notably in their ability to protect village culture ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Divided Fates

    The State, Race, and Korean Immigrants' Adaptation in Japan and the United States

    by Kazuko Suzuki ...
    Series series Perspectives on a Multiracial America
    Winner, ASA Book Award on Asia/Transnational (2017)This book compares the Korean diasporic groups in Japan and the United States. It highlights the contrasting adaptation of Koreans in Japan and the United States, and illuminates how the destinies of immigrants who originally belonged to the same ethnic/national collectivity diverge depending upon destinations and how they are received in a ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Marching Through Suffering

    Loss and Survival in North Korea

    by Sandra Fahy ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    Marching Through Suffering is a deeply personal portrait of the ravages of famine and totalitarian politics in modern North Korea since the 1990s. Featuring interviews with more than thirty North Koreans who defected to Seoul and Tokyo, the book explores the subjective experience of the nation's famine and its citizens' social and psychological strategies for coping with the regime.These oral ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Xi

    A Study in Power

    by Kerry Brown ...
    'Kerry Brown's Xi is the perfect primer for understanding Xi Jinping's status as China's greatest ruler since Mao and as this century's least assailable statesman' John Keay, author of China: A History'A valuable primer for anyone looking to get up to speed on Xi Jinping's rise to global power' Jeff Wasserstrom, Guardian'Offers a nuanced and thorough explanation of Xi's ... ... Read more

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