Contents
List of Maps
Map of Taiwan
Contributors (in chapter order)
Editor’s Note
Foreword
Learning from the Past to Strengthen our Future
Safe C. F. Lin
Producing this Book
Eric H. Y. Yu
Centered on Time and Place
Michael Buckland
Taking Ownership of the Timeline of History
Hsiang Jieh
Introduction
Taiwan Since Martial Law
David Blundell
Opening Essay
Trajectories of Democratization
Bo Tedards
Society & Culture
1 Taiwan Coming of Age
David Blundell
2 Grassroots Taiwan History
Ann Heylen
3 A Public Arts Venue in Taipei: Beitou Hot Springs Museum
Constance Woods
4 Rights to Recognition: Minorities and Indigenous Politics in Emerging Taiwan Nationalism
Ku Kun-hui
5 Review of the Hakka Ethnic Movement in Taiwan
Al Chung-chieh Wu
6 First Case of the New Recognition System: The Survival Strategies of the Thao
Mitsuda Yayoi
7 Retrieving Ancestral Power From the Landscape: Cultural Struggle and Yami Ecological Memory on Orchid Island
Jackson Hu
8 Perception and Cultural Identity of Taiwan Exchange Students in Germany From the 1980s to the Present
Monika Leipelt-Tsai
9 The First Generation Middle Class in Taiwan: Culture and Politics
Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao
10 Tea of Taiwan: Contemporary Adaptation
Niki Alsford
Politics & Economy
11 The Formation of Taiwan’s New National Identity Since the End of the 1980s
Frank Muyard
12 Election Campaigning Since the Taiwan Martial Law Era
Jonathan Sullivan
13 The Media in Democratic Taiwan
Gary D. Rawnsley and Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley
14 Fledgling Democracy in Taiwan: Need for a Civil Rights Protection System
Janet Tan
15 Nation vs. Tradition: Indigenous Rights and Smangus
David Reid
16 Righting the Wrongs of the Past? The Human Rights Policies of Chen Shui-bian and Ma Ying-jeou
Daniel Bowman
17 Economic Integration Across the Taiwan Strait: A Case of Cultural Identity Transformation and Contested National Sovereignty in the Context of Globalization
Jose Guerra Vio
18 Globalization and Economic Security: The Case of the Taiwanese Semiconductor Industry
Ming-chin Monique Chu
19 Economy of Taiwan after the Lifting of Martial Law: A Waning Developmental State?
Peter C. Y. Chow
Index