Taiwan S Modernization

Author : Wei-Bin Zhang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789812383518

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Taiwan's Modernization by Wei-Bin Zhang Pdf

This book is part of a broad examination of Confucianism and its implications for modernization of the Confucian regions (covering mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Singapore). It is mainly concerned with the industrialization and modernization of Taiwan. To help readers understand the process of modernization, the book provides an introduction to the history of Taiwan and to Confucianism and its modern implications. As far as social and economic principles are concerned, Taiwan's modernization is, according to the author, characterized by Americanization and modernizing Confucian manifestations. The book demonstrates that Taiwan has actually provided an important case study not only for the capitalist spirit of overseas Chinese, but also for possible implications of Confucianism for modernization. The unique character of this book is that in explaining Taiwan's modernization, it deals not only with economic and social issues, but also examines the philosophical foundations, an endeavor which no other author has systematically made before.

Author : Wenhui Cai
Publisher : School of Law University of Maryland
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061817610

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In Making China Modernized by Wenhui Cai Pdf

Author : Wenhui Cai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:654403020

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In Making China Modernized by Wenhui Cai Pdf

Author : Peter C. Chow
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111794066

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Taiwan's Modernization in Global Perspective by Peter C. Chow Pdf

This work offers a critical assessment of Taiwan's path to modernization, focusing particularly on developments of constitutional democracy and the rule of law, democratic transition and consolidation, internationalization and globalization, and social developments.

Author : Christopher M. Farricker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1423513606

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Chinese Military Modernization and the Future of Taiwan by Christopher M. Farricker Pdf

The potential military capabilities of the People's Republic of China (PRC) carry tremendous implications for the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan, The PRC's military modernization efforts are quickly eroding the ROC's qualitative military advantage As the PRC modernizes, the possibility for a peaceful reunification diminishes However, if it chooses an aggressive solution for reunification, the PRC recognizes that it may have to contend with the United States coming to Taiwan's aid, This thesis addresses the PRC's efforts to modernize its armed forces, Since 1985, Beijing has initiated a dedicated process of preparing the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to fight future wars, Through detailed analysis of U.S. military campaigns in the Middle East and the Balkans, the PRC has implemented new doctrine and equipment to help transform the PLA into a superior fighting force, As it modernizes, the PRC is developing strategies to force Taiwan's reunification with the mainland, Also, the PRC is developing asymmetric methods to defeat the possible presence of U,S, forces in the Taiwan Strait, The modernization of the PLA is dedicated towards achieving both of these goals.

Author : Keith Maguire
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822025984006

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The Rise of Modern Taiwan by Keith Maguire Pdf

Taiwan has undergone a dramatic transformation in terms of both economic growth and political reform. This book evaluates Taiwan's record and its prospects for the future.

Author : Niki Alsford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315279190

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Transitions to Modernity in Taiwan by Niki Alsford Pdf

On 19 April 1895, British Consul Lionel Charles Hopkins, at the northern port of Tamsui, was summoned by Tang Jingsong, the governor of Taiwan, to his yamen in the western district of Taipei. Shortly after his arrival, Hopkins was handed a petition. Signed by a number of Taiwanese ‘notables’, the document appealed to the British government to incorporate the island into a protectorate in the wake of an impending Japanese invasion. The British declined. This book addresses the interconnectivity of these two communities, by focusing on the market town of Dadaocheng in northern Taiwan. It seeks to contextualise and examine the establishment of a ‘settler society’ as well as the creation of a sojourning British community, showing how they became a precursor of modernity and ‘middle classism’ there. By uncovering who the signatories of the petition were and what their motivation was to call upon the British consulate to bring the island under its protection, it brings into focus a remarkable period of transition not only for the history of Taiwan but also for the modern history of China. Using 1895 as a year of enquiry, it ultimately challenges the current orthodoxy that modernity in Taiwan was simply a by-product of the Japanese colonial period. As a social and transnational history of the events that took place in Taiwan during 1895, this book will be useful for students of East Asian Studies, Modern Chinese Studies and Asian History.

Author : Chow, Peter C.Y.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800880160

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A Century of Development in Taiwan by Chow, Peter C.Y. Pdf

Most colonies became independent countries after the end of World War II, while few of them became modernized even after decades of their independence. Taiwan is one of the few to become a modern state with remarkable achievements in its economic, socio-cultural, and political development. This book addresses the path and trajectory of the emergence of Taiwan from a colony to a modern state in the past century.

Author : J. Megan Greene
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674033849

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The Origins of the Developmental State in Taiwan by J. Megan Greene Pdf

The rapid growth of Taiwan's postwar miracle economy is most frequently credited to the leading role of the state in promoting economic development. Megan Greene challenges this standard interpretation in the first in-depth examination of the origins of Taiwan's developmental state. Greene examines the ways in which the Guomindang state planned and promoted scientific and technical development both in mainland China between 1927 and 1949 and on Taiwan after 1949. Using industrial science policy as a lens, she shows that the state, even during its most authoritarian periods, did not function as a monolithic entity. State planners were concerned with maximizing the use of Taiwan's limited resources for industrial development. Political leaders, on the other hand, were most concerned with the state's political survival. The developmental state emerged gradually as a result of the combined efforts of technocrats and outsiders, including academicians and foreign advisors. Only when the political leadership put its authority and weight behind the vision of these early planners did Taiwan's developmental state fully come into being. In Taiwan's combination of technocratic expertise and political authoritarianism lie implications for our understanding of changes taking place in mainland China today.

Author : Marc L. Moskowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136903175

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Popular Culture in Taiwan by Marc L. Moskowitz Pdf

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.

Author : Kenneth S. Fu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : China
ISBN : UCAL:C3447347

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China's Modernizing Military by Kenneth S. Fu Pdf

"Does China have the military capability to threaten Taiwan? What are China's intentions with its newly modernizing military? How much of a threat does that pose to the United States? The assumption generally is that the United States will intervene in some form in the event that China attacked Taiwan. But what if the U.S. does not intervene and Taiwan does not succumb to threats alone? Can China back up its threats and succeed in an invasion of Taiwan using only its conventional forces? How successful has the PLA modernization drive been so far and what promise does it hold in the next few years to achieve the objective of taking Taiwan back by force? The purpose of this thesis is to measure the results of China's military modernization efforts and determine if the PLA has the capability to defeat Taiwan in a conventional war and succeed in an invasion of the island."--Abstract from web site

Author : Yuko Kikuchi
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780824830502

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Refracted Modernity by Yuko Kikuchi Pdf

Since the mid-1990s Taiwanese artists have been responsible for shaping much of the international contemporary art scene, yet studies on modern Taiwanese art published outside of Taiwan are scarce. The nine essays collected here present different perspectives on Taiwanese visual culture and landscape during the Japanese colonial period (1895–1945), focusing variously on travel writings, Western and Japanese/Oriental-style paintings, architecture, aboriginal material culture, and crafts. Issues addressed include the imagined Taiwan and the "discovery" of the Taiwanese landscape, which developed into the imperial ideology of nangoku (southern country); the problematic idea of "local color," which was imposed by Japanese, and its relation to the "nativism" that was embraced by Taiwanese; the gendered modernity exemplified in the representation of Chinese/Taiwanese women; and the development of Taiwanese artifacts and crafts from colonial to postcolonial times, from their discovery, estheticization, and industrialization to their commodification by both the colonizers and the colonized. Contributors: Chao-Ching Fu, Chia-yu Hu, Yuko Kikuchi, Kaoru Kojima, Ming-chu Lai, Hsin-tien Liao, Naoko Shimazu, Toshio Watanabe, Chuan-ying Yen.

Author : Alan P. L. Liu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038300930

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Phoenix and the Lame Lion by Alan P. L. Liu Pdf

Author : Robert G. Sutter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Taiwan
ISBN : UCSD:31822003268646

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Taiwan by Robert G. Sutter Pdf

Author : J. Megan Greene,Robert Ash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134125890

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Taiwan in the 21st Century by J. Megan Greene,Robert Ash Pdf

Throughout the twentieth century Taiwan was viewed as a model - whether in terms of a model colony, a model China or a development model. This perception was based on the notion of Taiwan undergoing an economic miracle and political developments. Yet much of Taiwan’s history is unique and may not be readily replicable elsewhere. Written by an impressive line up of contributors from the US, UK, Taiwan, France and Hong Kong, this book analyzes Taiwan’s economic and political achievements, and asks whether it is possible to identify through the experience of a single nation – Taiwan – the makings of a replicable model. This book will appeal to students and scholars of Taiwan, political economy, and Asia-Pacific regional development issues.