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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.

35 Series Titles


Taiwan's Economic and Diplomatic Challenges and Opportunities

Taiwan's Economic and Diplomatic Challenges and Opportunities

1st Edition

Edited By Mariah Thornton, Robert Ash, Dafydd Fell
January 09, 2023

This book offers a diverse set of perspectives on the current state of Taiwan’s economy and international relations, equally considering the challenges and opportunities that could forge Taiwan’s future. Featuring a range of interdisciplinary approaches, this edited volume has been written by some...

Taiwan’s Contemporary Indigenous Peoples

Taiwan’s Contemporary Indigenous Peoples

1st Edition

Edited By Chia-yuan Huang, Daniel Davies, Dafydd Fell
January 09, 2023

This edited volume provides a complete introduction to critical issues across the field of Indigenous peoples in contemporary Taiwan, from theoretical approaches to empirical analysis. Seeking to inform wider audiences about Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples, this book brings together both leading and ...

Taiwan's Green Parties Alternative Politics in Taiwan

Taiwan's Green Parties: Alternative Politics in Taiwan

1st Edition

By Dafydd Fell
September 26, 2022

Examining the Green Party Taiwan (GPT) since its establishment through the aftermath of the most recent national elections in January 2020, this book focuses on Taiwan’s most important movement party over the last two and a half decades. Despite its limited electoral impact, its leaders have played...

Deliberative Democracy in Taiwan A Deliberative Systems Perspective

Deliberative Democracy in Taiwan: A Deliberative Systems Perspective

1st Edition

By Mei-Fang Fan
May 30, 2022

This book is a pioneering analysis of the deliberative systems approach in Taiwan, extending an understanding of Taiwanese democratic politics and consolidating links between theoretical development and a practical application of deliberative practices. As a front-runner of new democracies in...

Literary Representations of “Mainlanders” in Taiwan Becoming Sinophone

Literary Representations of “Mainlanders” in Taiwan: Becoming Sinophone

1st Edition

By Phyllis Yu-ting Huang
May 30, 2022

This book examines literary representations of mainlander identity articulated by Taiwan’s second-generation mainlander writers, who share the common feature of emotional ambivalence between Taiwan and China. Closely analyzing literary narratives of Chinese civil war migrants and their descendants ...

Cross-Strait Relations Since 2016 The End of the Illusion

Cross-Strait Relations Since 2016: The End of the Illusion

1st Edition

By J. Michael Cole
February 28, 2020

Cross-Strait Relations Since 2016: The End of the Illusion examines the situation in the Taiwan Strait since the election of Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party in the January 2016 general elections. Tracking the pragmatic approach taken by the Tsai administration, this book ...

Taiwan Studies Revisited

Taiwan Studies Revisited

1st Edition

Edited By Dafydd Fell, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao
September 10, 2019

This book examines and reviews some of the key figures in Taiwan Studies to plot the development of the field by revisiting their earlier influential books and bodies of work. Often autobiographical in detail, each chapter asks the author to discuss the origins of their research and how their ...

Technology Transfer Between the US, China and Taiwan Moving Knowledge

Technology Transfer Between the US, China and Taiwan: Moving Knowledge

1st Edition

Edited By Douglas B. Fuller, Murray A. Rubinstein
June 28, 2018

Examining the flow of technical knowledge between the US, Taiwan and Mainland China over the last sixty-five years, this book shows that the technical knowledge that has moved between these states is vast and varied. It includes the invention and production of industrial goods, as well as knowledge...

Government and Politics in Taiwan

Government and Politics in Taiwan

2nd Edition

By Dafydd Fell
January 24, 2018

Written by an experienced teacher and scholar, this new and revised second edition of Government and Politics in Taiwan introduces students to the big questions concerning change and continuity in Taiwanese politics and governance. Taking a critical approach, Dafydd Fell provides students with the ...

Migration to and From Taiwan

Migration to and From Taiwan

1st Edition

Edited By Kuei-fen Chiu, Dafydd Fell, Lin Ping
October 26, 2017

Migration has transformed Taiwanese society in the last 20 years, and this edited volume showcases some of the leading researchers working on migration to and from Taiwan. The chapters approach migration from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including international relations, sociology, social...

Environmental Governance in Taiwan A New Generation of Activists and Stakeholders

Environmental Governance in Taiwan: A New Generation of Activists and Stakeholders

1st Edition

By Simona A. Grano
June 30, 2017

Three decades of rapid industrialization until the lifting of martial law in 1987, with little or no concern for the environment, have made Taiwan’s environmental degradation a serious problem. In the past twenty years, Taiwan has seen a surge of environmental organizations, which to a certain ...

Place, Identity, and National Imagination in Post-war Taiwan

Place, Identity, and National Imagination in Post-war Taiwan

1st Edition

By Bi-yu Chang
June 16, 2017

In the struggles for political and cultural hegemony that Taiwan has witnessed since the 1980s, the focal point in contesting narratives and the key battlefield in the political debates are primarily spatial and place-based. The major fault line appears to be a split between an imposed identity ...

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