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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...