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Good Wife, Wise Mother
Educating Han Taiwanese Girls under Japanese Rule
Traces Japan's efforts to modernize Taiwan through gendered educational practices
In Good Wife, Wise Mother, female education and citizenship serve as a lens through which to examine Taiwan’s uniqueness as a colonial crossroads between Chinese and...
ISBN: 9780295752648
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Taiwan Lives
A Social and Political History
Stories of migration, displacement, democratization, and transformation
From a cradle of Austronesian expansion to the dynamic economic powerhouse and successful democracy it is today, Taiwan is layered in colonial histories. In Taiwan Lives, Niki J. P....
ISBN: 9780295752167
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Rural China on the Eve of Revolution
Sichuan Fieldnotes, 1949-1950
In 1949, G. William Skinner, a Cornell University graduate student, set off for southwest China to conduct field research on rural social structure. He settled near the market town of Gaodianzi, Sichuan, and lived there...
ISBN: 9780295999425
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Contested Taiwan
Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation
Where statehood is contested, questions of identity and territory define the political landscape
Despite maintaining de facto sovereignty, states like Taiwan find themselves unrecognized in today’s international system because another power claims the state as part...
ISBN: 9780295753928
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