A Century of Development in Taiwan: From Colony to Modern State

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Most colonies became independent countries after the end of World War II, while few of them became modernized even after decades of their independence. Taiwan is one of the few to become a modern state with remarkable achievements in its economic, socio-cultural, and political development. In 1921, Taiwanese intellectuals initiated a Petition Movement for the Establishment of a Taiwanese Parliament under the colonial government. Leaders of the enlightenment also established the Taiwan Cultural Association (TCA) on October 17, 1921. These two movements led to a series of socio-cultural, political, and economic developments during the past century. This book addresses the path and trajectory of the emergence of Taiwan from a colony to a modern state in the past century. It contains four major sections on identity and political developments and explores international relations, economic development. educational and societal development, and culture and literature development. This thorough exploration will prove invaluable to graduate and undergraduate students in Taiwan history, literature, and the cultural and political economy of development as well as students studying East Asia. It offers the same wealth of information to researchers and practitioners in Taiwan-China-US trilateral relations and in cultural anthropology and practices in East Asia politics and business. Contents List of figures List of tables List of contributors Foreword: learning history • Edward Friedman Foreword: why start talking from 1920s? • Masahiro Wakabayashi Preface and acknowledgment PART I: INTRODUCTION 1 From colony to modern state: an overview of Taiwan’s path of development • Peter C.Y. Chow PART II: TAIWANESE IDENTITY, POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT, AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 2 Taiwan’s international relations • June Teufel Dreyer 3 From a province to a sovereign state: Taiwan’s political changes as reflected in the three critical years 1951, 1971 and 1991 • Yi-Shen Chen 4 Rethinking Taiwanese ethnicity: notes on recent historical scholarship • Lung-chih Chang 5 Identity in formation and transformation: dynamics of national identity change after Taiwan’s democratization • Shiau-Chi Shen PART III: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SINCE THE 1920s 6 Taiwan’s industrialization and Southeast Asia during the Japanese period: a miracle growth in prewar Taiwan • Frank S.T. Hsiao 7 The path of Taiwan’s industrial development: from follower to innovator • Peter C.Y. Chow 8 Money and banking in Taiwan: country identity and the top trade partner • Hong-Jen Abraham Lin PART IV: SOCIETAL AND EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 9 The rise and fall of civil society movements in Taiwan: 1920–2020 • Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao 10 A century of colonial education by Japan and the KMT/ROC party-state, 1898–1997: a comparative study of the problems of Taiwan’s national identity • Wan-yao Chou 11 Transformation of women’s status in Taiwan, 1920–2020 • Doris T. Chang PART V: LITERATURE AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TAIWAN 12 The rise and fall of cultural theatre and new theatre, from the 1920s to the 1960s • Yin-Chen Kang 13 Modern literature of Taiwan: between China and the world • Michelle Yeh 14 Hybrid theatre: the origin and development of creative Taiwanese opera • Jasmine Yu-Hsing Chen 15 A century of struggle over Taiwan’s cultural self-consciousness: the life and afterlife of Chiang Wei-shui and the Taiwan Cultural Association • Fang-long Shih Corresponding table of Wade-Giles/Taigi and Pinyin romanization of Chinese names and terms Index