Taiwan in Comparative Perspective

ISSN 1752-7732

The eJournal of the Taiwan Research Programme
at the London School of Economics

Volume 2: December 2008

Taiwan in Comparative Perspective Vol 1 

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Articles

Hou Shan in Maps: Orientalism in Taiwan’s Geographic Imagination
Hsia Li Ming and Ethan Yorgason

Constructions of National Identity: A Tale of Twin Capital Building in Early Post-war Taiwan
Yi-Wen Wang and Tim Heath

Women's Organizations and the Changing State/Society Relationship: Resistance, Co-option by the State, or Partnership?
Fang-Mei Lin

Original Sin on the Island Paradise? Qing Taiwan’s Colonial History in Comparative Perspective
Edward Vickers

Book Reviews

Margaret Hillenbrand (2007) Literature, Modernity, and the Practice of Resistance: Japanese and Taiwanese Fiction, 1960-1990
Christopher Lupke

David Wang and Carlos Rojas (eds) (2006) Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History
Tommy McClellan

Michael Rudolph (2003) Taiwans multi-ethnische Gesellschaft und die Bewegung der Ureinwohner: Assimilation oder kulturelle Revitalisierung? and Peter Kulchyski (2007) The Red Indians: an Episodic, Informal Collection of Tales from theHistory of Aboriginal People’s Struggles in Canada
Scott Simon

Taiwan Journal of Democracy
Paul-François Tremlett

Cover art: Video still from Unfolding © Jenny Lu, used with permission.
To learn more about the artist and her work, and to see the full video, please visit http://www.step13.co.uk/jennylu/.

This publication was supported in part by a grant from the Tsao Yung-Ho Foundaion


Volume 1: November 2007

Taiwan in Comparative Perspective Vol 1

Click on the titles below for pdfs of the articles, or click here for the whole issue.

Articles

‘Communism’ in Taiwan and the Mainland: Transmission of the Great Leap Famine and of the White Terror
Stephan Feuchtwang

Death-Scapes in Taipei and Manila: A Postmodern Necrography
Paul-François Tremlett

The Intrusive Rendering: Dictation of Stereotypes and the Extra-Ordinary
Doreen Bernath

Commentaries

The EU Two-Level Sovereignty System as Model for Taiwan and China
Bengt Johansson

Ethnicity in the Politics of the Unreal
Allen Chun

The 'Red' Tide Anti-Corruption Protest: What Does it Mean for Democracy in Taiwan?
Fang-long Shih

Reviews

Huang Zhang-jian (2007) Er-er-ba shijian zhenxiang kaozheng gao (The Truth about 2-28: Assessing the Documents)
Stefan Fleischauer

Shao-li Lu (2005) Zhanshi Taiwan: quanli, kongjian yu zhimin tongzhi de xingxiang biaoshu (Exhibiting Taiwan: Power, Space and Image Representation of Japanese Colonial Rule)
Edward Vickers

Mark Harrison (2006) Legitimacy, Meaning, and Knowledge in the making of Taiwanese identity
Paul-François Tremlett

Response to Tremlett's Review of Legitimacy, Meaning, and Knowledge in the making of Taiwanese identity
Mark Harrison

Cover art: Mass of Consciousness (2000) Ink on paper, 112 x 203cm. © Ming-hui Chen, used with permission.
To learn more about the artist and her work, please visit www.minghuichen.co.uk.

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