Taiwan Books


Forbidden Nation: A History of Taiwan Best Price: $15.34 Manthorpe has filled a vital need, writing a concise, highly readable history of Taiwan and its...	Taiwan: A Political History Best Price: $17.45 the book prevents the basic facts, but lacks analytical depth. a good intro nonetheless for...	Is Taiwan Chinese?: The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities (Interdisciplinary Studies of China, 2) Best Price: $20.59 "The "one China" policy officially supported by the People's Republic of China,...	Becoming Japanese: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation Best Price: $19.74 A great book drawing on postcolonial and postmodern thought that analyzes Japanese colonial...	A War Like No Other: The Truth About China's Challenge to America Best Price: $1.99 America's reaction to Tiananmen Square, quick victory in the first Persian Gulf War, and Taiwan...



Culture and Customs of Taiwan Best Price: $51.29 I liked this book very much. I thought that it was informative, and well written. I didn't...	Chinese National Cinema (National Cinemas Series.) Best Price: $27.99 Read the review by Sabrina Q. Yu, University of Nottingham, UK in ...	Democracy's Dharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan Best Price: $15.69 This book explores the remarkable religious renaissance that has reformed, revitalized, and...	Assessing the Threat: The Chinese Military and Taiwan's Security (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) Best Price: $22.67 Since at least the early 1950s, the entire Asia-Pacific region has struggled with the...	Coxinga and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty Best Price: $7.16 This is the fantastic true story of the infamous pirate; Coxinga who became king of Taiwan and...



Taiwan, Fourth Edition Best Price: $22.71 Although the book's organization resembles a textbook too much, the information is invaluable....	Untying the Knot: Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait Best Price: $15.00 I would strongly recommend this excellent book for anyone who seriously wants to read about one...	Island On The Edge: Taiwan New Cinema And After Best Price: $24.95 This is the first English-language anthology on the Taiwan New Cinema and its legacy. It is an...	Chiang Kai-Shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost Best Price: $4.95 While the author seems dispassionate and measured enough, there is the hard reality that the...	Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895 (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Best Price: $17.88 Until 300 years ago, the Chinese considered Taiwan a "land beyond the seas," a...

Disabling Globalization: Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa Best Price: $23.78 I am satisfied! Am pleased to have received my order in a timely fashion.	Politics in Taiwan Best Price: $44.95 Professor Rigger's inaugural work shows a great deal of talent and promise. She argues...	Struggle across the Taiwan Strait: The Divided China Problem (Hoover Institution Press Publication, 542) (Hoover Institution Press Publication) Best Price: $8.80 Divided China's Continuing Struggle In 1949, China divided into two regimes, with the...	The Generalissimo's Son: Chiang Ching-kuo and the Revolutions in China and Taiwan Best Price: $54.66 I enjoyed reading it. Given the busy schedule, I myself find it amazing actually having...	The Politics of Buddhist Organizations in Taiwan: 1989-2003: Safeguard the Faith, Build a Pure Land, Help the Poor Best Price: $176.05 The Politics of Buddhist Organizations in Taiwan looks at a relatively unexplored aspect of...

The Chinese House: Craft, Symbol and the Folk Tradition (Images of Asia) Best Price: $25.95 This book might be more appropriately filed under 'young readers'. First, it is a small book,...	Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei Best Price: $258.50 The National Museum of Art in Taipei is the repository of the finest Chinese art in the world....	Legal Reform in Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945: The Reception of Western Law (Asian Law Series) Best Price: $75.00 Taiwan's modern legal system - quite different from those of both traditional China and the...	Kinkaseki : One Day at a Time Best Price: $17.49 Arthur Thitherington has led the fight for justice for the treatment the POWs received at the...	Negotiating Ethnicities in China and Taiwan (China Research Monograph)

$Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan$ Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan Best Price: $52.10 Since the mid-1990s Taiwanese artists have been responsible for shaping much of the...	History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community Best Price: $62.92 Writing anthropology presents many tactical problems. Your data covers vast expanses of life,...	Hitchcock with a Chinese Face: Cinematic Doubles, Oedipal Triangles, and China's Moral Voice Best Price: $2.95 Silbergeld takes the three Chinese films Suzhou River, The Day the Sun Turned Cold, and Good Men...	Playing to the World's Biggest Audience: The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV Best Price: $19.68 I write this from Los Angeles, which has the Hollywood film industry. It has dominated world...	Once Upon a Time in China Best Price: $4.62 Perhaps the best place to read a good overview of Asian film for a beginner. It also helps that...

The Armies of East Asia: China, Taiwan, Japan, and the Koreas Best Price: $29.95 The author's focus is primarily China and Taiwan. However, I learned the most from his coverage...	If China Attacks Taiwan: Military Strategy, Politics and Economics (Asian Security Studies) Best Price: $124.82 I bought this book after reading Jonathan Mirsky's highly positive and alarming review in the...	Taiwan: A New History (Taiwan in the Modern World) Best Price: $19.00 This is one of the most complete books on Taiwan and its history available in the English...	Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945: History, Culture, Memory (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) Best Price: $42.45 This book brings together in one volume a fine collection of readably scholarly articles by...	Taiwan's Statesman: Lee Teng Hui and Democracy in Asia Best Price: $14.95 In 1988 a man who had studied Zen and lived in the U.S and Japan came to power in Taiwan and...

Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan Best Price: $28.60 "Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan" tells the peculiar story of an art caught in a...	Japanese Colonial Eduacation in Taiwan, 1895-1945 (Harvard East Asian Series)	A Chinese Pioneer Family: The Lins of Wu-feng, Taiwan, 1729-1895 (Studies of the East Asian Institute) Best Price: $19.95 This is a first-choice, must-read book on Taiwan history and culture. It covers most of...	Agricultural Growth in Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and the Philippines: [Proceedings]	Marriage and Mandatory Abortion Among the 17Th-Century Siraya (American Ethnological Society Monograph Series) Best Price: $26.32

Ideology and Development: Sun Yat-Sen and the Economic History of Taiwan (China Research Monograph) Best Price: $4.00	Counterrevolution in China: Wang Sheng and the Kuomintang Best Price: $31.00 Spanning 60 years of modern Chinese history from the non-communist perspective, this work...	The Colonial Engineering of Taiwan (Academia Sinica on East Asia) Best Price: $129.65 This book is concerned with the nature of Japan's colonial administration in Taiwan - developing...	China and the Taiwan Issue: Impending War at Taiwan Strait Best Price: $5.00 Written by Gabe T. Wang (Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at William...	Chinese-Language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics Best Price: $29.00 This volume, the most comprehensive work to date on Chinese film, explores the manifold...

Korean Pop Music: Riding the Wave Best Price: $72.98 Korean popular music has in the last decade become a significant model for youth culture...	Competition Policy and Law in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan Best Price: $49.98 This book comprehensively examines competition policy and law in Greater China--the People's...	Tanners of Taiwan: Life Strategies and National Culture (Westview Case Studies in Anthropology) Best Price: $7.91 Tanners of Taiwan is an ethnography of identity construction set in the leather-tanning...	At Cross Purposes: U.S.-Taiwan Relations Since 1942 (Taiwan in the Modern World (M.E. Sharpe Paperback)) Best Price: $29.71 Written by the former chairman and managing director of the American Institute in Taiwan, this...	Taiwan's Rising Rationalism: Generations, Politics, and "Taiwanese Nationalism" Best Price: $10.00 There is a widespread perception among Taiwan-watchers that the rising proportion of islanders...

Taiwanese Culture, Taiwanese Society: A Critical Review of Social Science Research Done on Taiwan TCTS is a critique of social science research (mostly by American trained anthropologists and...	Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity: Moral Education and Economic Culture in Japan and the Four Mini-Dragons Best Price: $23.40 Some questions we cannot explain by "Confucian Traditions" Q1.Given that Confuciunism...	Fengpitou, Tapenkeng, and the Prehistory of Taiwan Best Price: $119.98	Framing the Bride: Globalizing Beauty and Romance in Taiwan's Bridal Industry Best Price: $14.50 With a wedding impending, the Taiwanese bride-to-be turns to bridal photographers, makeup...	Alternative Theater in Taiwan: Feminist and Intercultural Approaches Best Price: $47.97

The Other Taiwan 1945 to the Present: 1945 To the Present (Taiwan in the Modern World) Best Price: $42.95 Far too many authors of the English literature on Taiwan focus on the island through the narrow,...	Doctors within Borders: Profession, Ethnicity, and Modernity in Colonial Taiwan Best Price: $11.50 This book explores Japan's "scientific colonialism" through a careful study of the...

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