Across
the Taiwan Strait : Mainland China, Taiwan, and the 1995-1996 Crisis
by Suisheng Zhao (Editor), Inger Mess (Editor), Beverley Collins (Editor)
Half
Baked in Taiwan
Becoming
Japanese: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation
by Leo T. S. Ching
Taiwan
Strait Dilemmas : China-Taiwan-U.S. Policies in the New Century
by Gerrit W. Gong (Editor)
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Three-Legged
Horse (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan)
by Cheng Ch'Ing-Wen
The
Taste of Apples (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan)
The
Generalissimo's Son : Chiang Ching-Kuo and the Revolutions in China and
Taiwan
by Jay Taylor
Chiang Ching-kuo, son and political heir of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek,
was born in 1910, when Chinese women, nearly all illiterate, hobbled about
on bound feet and men wore pigtails as symbols of subservience to the Manchu
Dynasty. In his youth Ching-kuo was a Communist and a Trotskyite, and he
lived twelve years in Russia. He died in 1988 as the leader of Taiwan,
a Chinese society with a flourishing consumer economy and a budding but
already wild, woolly, and open democracy. He was an actor in many of the
events of the last century that shaped the history of China's struggles
and achievements in the modern era: the surge of nationalism among Chinese
youth, the grand appeal of Marxism-Leninism, the terrible battle against
fascist Japan, and the long, destructive civil war between the Nationalists
and the Communists. In 1949, he fled to Taiwan with his father and two
million Nationalists. He led the brutal suppression of dissent on the island
and was a major player in the cold, sometimes hot war between Communist
China and America. By reacting to changing economic, social, and political
dynamics on Taiwan, Sino-American rapprochement, Deng Xiaoping's sweeping
reforms on the mainland, and other international events, he led Taiwan
on a zigzag but ultimately successful transition from dictatorship to democracy.
Jay Taylor underscores the interaction of political developments on
the mainland and in Taiwan and concludes that if China ever makes a similar
transition, it will owe much to the Taiwan example and the Generalissimo's
son.
Hardcover: 496 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.33 x
9.52 x 6.55
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; ; (October 2000)
ISBN: 0674002873
A
Thousand Moons on a Thousand Rivers (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan)
The
Haunting Fetus : Abortion, Sexuality, and the Spirit World in Taiwan
by Marc L. Moskowitz
Notes
of a Desolate Man (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan)
by Chu T'ien-wen
"I am a sick man ... I am a spiteful man," cries the narrator of Dostoyevsky's
Notes from the Underground. The narrator of Chu Tien-Wen's Notes of a Desolate
Man might amend that to "I am not a sick man ... but I am by no means well."
Xiao Shao has reached the age of 40 only to feel that his life has run
its course. His close childhood friend has recently succumbed to AIDS,
and while he remains "unbelievably, amazingly" free from infection, Ah
Yao's death has sent him spiraling into depression. Like Dostoyevsky's
hero, Xiao suffers from a profound alienation--as a Chinese deeply engaged
with Western thought, as a gay man still coming to terms with his sexuality,
and, by extension, as a Taiwanese citizen both cut off from and bound to
the mainland. T'ien-Wen's narrative intercuts his reflections on the nature
of desire with ruminations on culture both high and low--from Fellini and
Goethe to Michael Jackson and Barbra Streisand. The result is a remarkable
chronicle of life on the artistic, political, and sexual margins. A 1994
winner of the China Times Novel Prize, this dense, intelligent, deliberately
paced novel is no less insightful for having been written not by a gay
man, but by a woman: an author of 15 previous books and one of Taiwan's
leading intellectuals. Her convincing account of Xiao's inner life is a
testament to the powers of the creative imagination to transcend difference.
--Chloe Byrne - Amazon.com
Paperback: 184 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.58 x
9.27 x 5.53
Publisher: Columbia University Press; ; 0 edition (November
15, 2000)
ISBN: 0231116098
A
Thousand Moons on a Thousand Rivers (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan)
Taiwan
: A New History (Taiwan in the Modern World)
by Murray A. Rubinstein (Editor)
Wild
Kids (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan)
Face
Off : China, the United States, and Taiwan's Democratization
Cooperation
or Conflict in the Taiwan Strait?
Weathering
the Storm: Taiwan, Its Neighbors, and the Asian Financial Crisis
by Peter C. Y. Chow (Editor), Bates Gill (Editor)
The
Armies of East Asia : China, Taiwan, Japan, and the Koreas
A
Tragic Beginning: The Taiwan Uprising of February 28, 1947
by Lai Tse-Han, Ramon H. Myers, Wei Wou, Tse-Han Lai, Zehan Lai
Hardcover from Stanford Univ Pr (S)
Book Published: October, 1991
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Culture
and Customs of Taiwan
by Gary Marvin Davison, Barbara E. Reed
Hardcover from Greenwood Publishing Group
Book Published: 30 September, 1998 |
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Pentecost
of the Hills in Taiwan: The Christian Faith Among the Original Inhabitants
by Ralph R. Covell, Arthur F. Glasser
Paperback from Hope Publishing House
Book Published: January, 1998
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Taiwan : Your Pocket Guide to Taiwanese Business, Customs & Etiquette
(Passport to the World)
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Shock!: Taiwan
Asia
for Women on Business : Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea
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