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.
Assessing the Presidency of Ma Ying-jiu in Taiwan: Hopeful Beginning, Hopeless End?
1st Edition
Edited
By André Beckershoff, Gunter Schubert
August 14, 2020
The years of the Ma Ying-jiu presidency in Taiwan were controversial from the beginning. When he came to power in 2008, Ma was considered the strongest and most popular KMT presidential candidate since Lee Teng-hui. However, his rapprochement towards China met with increasing resistance and by the ...
Social Movements in Taiwan’s Democratic Transition: Linking Activists to the Changing Political Environment
1st Edition
By Yun Fan
June 30, 2020
Examining the relationships between activists and the changing political environment, this book analyzes the trajectories of three major social movements in Taiwan during the country’s democratic transition between 1980 and 2000. In doing so, it explores why the labor and environmental movements ...
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 ...
A New Era in Democratic Taiwan: Trajectories and Turning Points in Politics and Cross-Strait Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Sullivan, Chun-Yi Lee
December 05, 2019
In January 2016, Taiwan’s former authoritarian ruler, the KMT, the Nationalist Party of China, lost control of both the presidency and the legislature. Having led the democratization process in Taiwan during the 1980s, it maintained a winning coalition among big business, the public sector, ...
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 ...
Changing Taiwanese Identities
1st Edition
Edited
By J. Bruce Jacobs, Peter Kang
March 21, 2019
The peoples of Taiwan have been influenced by many different cultures and migrations throughout the island’s history. In the 20th and early 21st centuries especially it has been a stage for cultural and ethnic conflict, not least because of the arrival of mainland Chinese fleeing the Chinese ...
Transitions to Modernity in Taiwan: The Spirit of 1895 and the Cession of Formosa to Japan
1st Edition
By Niki Alsford
January 17, 2019
On 19 April 1895, British Consul Lionel Charles Hopkins, at the northern port of Tamsui, was summoned by Tang Jingsong, the governor of Taiwan, to his yamen in the western district of Taipei. Shortly after his arrival, Hopkins was handed a petition. Signed by a number of Taiwanese ‘notables’, the ...
Culture Politics and Linguistic Recognition in Taiwan: Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Party System
1st Edition
By Jean-Francois Dupre
August 14, 2018
The consolidation of Taiwanese identity in recent years has been accompanied by two interrelated paradoxes: a continued language shift from local Taiwanese languages to Mandarin Chinese, and the increasing subordination of the Hoklo majority culture in ethnic policy and public identity discourses. ...
Taiwan's Social Movements under Ma Ying-jeou: From the Wild Strawberries to the Sunflowers
1st Edition
Edited
By Dafydd Fell
August 14, 2018
In the spring of 2014, the Sunflower Movement’s three-week occupation of the Legislative Yuan brought Taiwan back to international media attention. It was the culmination of a series of social movements that had been growing in strength since 2008 and have become even more salient since the spring ...
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...
Taiwan and The ‘China Impact’: Challenges and Opportunities
1st Edition
Edited
By Gunter Schubert
April 25, 2018
There can be no doubt that China’s economic and political rise is having a stronger effect on Taiwan than on any other country, given the Chinese government’s claim to sovereignty over Taiwan, and Taiwan’s quest to maintain its democratic achievements and political identity as a sovereign state. ...
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 ...