Routledge Research on Taiwan Series
About the Book Series
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the books will cover topics such as politics, economic development, culture, society, anthropology and history.
This new book series will include the best possible scholarship from the social sciences and the humanities and welcomes submissions from established authors in the field as well as from younger authors. In addition to research monographs and edited volumes general works or textbooks with a broader appeal will be considered.
The Series is advised by an international Editorial Board and edited by Dafydd Fell of the Centre of Taiwan Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Taiwan’s Modern Identity Reimagined: Becoming Taiwanese
1st Edition
By Rosemary Haddon
April 27, 2026
This book examines the formation of Taiwan’s modern identity during the course of the twentieth century and its intersection with the “new” Taiwanese identity. Mapping the identity formation to the successive regimes of the twentieth century that are colonial, neo-colonial and nationalistic, this ...
Feeling Taiwan: Emotions in Everyday Politics, Social Movements, and Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Po-Han Lee, Alvaro Martinez-Lacabe, Yu-chin Tseng
April 06, 2026
In re-centring emotion in Taiwan Studies, a field long dominated by rationalist approaches, this interdisciplinary volume highlights how feelings—of belonging, grief, intimacy, distrust, and ambivalence—shape political life, social formations, and scholarly practice. Its chapters range across ...
Why Taiwan?: Anthropological Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Shuenn-der Yu, Anru Lee
December 31, 2025
This book considers why Taiwan matters independent of the China-centric paradigm by both examining anthropological research on Taiwan as well as how to study Taiwan anthropologically, re-asserting the ontological status of Taiwan as a legitimate object of scholarly inquiry....
Money God Temples in Taiwan: Transcendence and Metaphysics in Chinese Religion
1st Edition
By Fabian Graham
December 22, 2025
This book traces the history and development of Taiwan’s new money god tradition, where, by borrowing a small sum of blessed ‘fortune money’ and returning it with interest within a year, a temple’s deity may intervene in the recipient’s life, bringing them unearned good luck and good fortune. ...
Meditative Dance Theatre in Contemporary Taiwan: U-Theatre, Legend Lin Dance Theatre, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and the Eastern Body Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Izabella Łabędzka
December 16, 2025
This book explores the most unique contemporary forms of Taiwanese dance theatre and the theatre of movement created by renowned choreographers whose productions are committed to the Eastern body aesthetics (dongfang shentiguan). By examining the shared backgrounds of the creators of these forms ...
Taiwan’s COVID-19 Experience: Governance, Governmentality, and the Global Pandemic
1st Edition
Edited
By Ming-Cheng M. Lo, Yu-Yueh Tsai, Michael Shiyung Liu
November 28, 2025
This book explores and develops the ongoing conversation about how Taiwan navigated through the COVID-19 pandemic. Emphasizing the themes of governance and governmentality, it moves the foci of the discussion from COVID policies to the social and political orders undergirding the statecraft of ...
Contemporary Taiwan: More than a Flashpoint
1st Edition
Edited
By Kristina Kironska, Eunika Rejtová Yang
November 25, 2025
This new textbook presents an excellent introduction to the most important aspects of contemporary Taiwanese society, politics, economy, and international relations in a comprehensive and reader-friendly way. Illustrating Taiwan as more than just a military hot spot – also as a vibrant ...
Taiwan's Semiconductor Miracle: From Periphery to Core
1st Edition
By Tain-Jy Chen, Chin-Tay Shih
November 18, 2025
This book examines how a series of inconceivable developments in the semiconductor industry over the last 40 years shaped modern Taiwan. Covering one of the most dramatic episodes in modern technology history, this book outlines the ascent of a resource-impoverished and technology-disadvantaged ...
Identity, Multiplicity, and Resistance in Taiwanese Poetry
1st Edition
Edited
By Wen-chi Li
April 04, 2025
Li and his contributors explore how Taiwanese poets conceptualize their identities, employing multiple voices to challenge political hegemony and re-evaluate Taiwan’s colonial legacy and nationalism. Poetry in Taiwan exists at the intersection of Taiwanese, Mandarin, and Japanese languages and ...
Taiwan's Democracy: Economic and Political Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Ash, John W. Garver, Penelope Prime
January 30, 2025
Taiwan’s rapid industrialization during the 1960s and 1970s, combined with the democratic revolution that began with the lifting of martial law in 1987 were of deep historic importance. Over the next decade Taiwan’s "political miracle" matched its earlier "economic miracle" creating a vibrant ...
Social Forces in the Re-Making of Cross-Strait Relations: Hegemony and Social Movements in Taiwan
1st Edition
By André Beckershoff
December 18, 2024
Adopting a critical political economy perspective this book sheds new light on the social and political struggles that shaped the political dynamics of Taiwan-China relations and cross-Strait rapprochement between 2008 and 2014. Presenting a careful analysis of primary sources and interviews, the ...
Switching Diplomatic Recognition Between Taiwan and China: Economic and Social Impact
1st Edition
Edited
By Chien-Huei Wu
April 04, 2024
This book examines the economic and social impacts of switching diplomatic relations from Taiwan to China, and vice versa, and investigates how China achieves its foreign policy objective of dissuading Taiwan’s diplomatic partners and other third parties from engaging with Taiwan. Highlighting the ...