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Connecting Taiwan: Participation – Integration – Impacts book cover

1st Edition

Connecting Taiwan Participation – Integration – Impacts

Edited By Carsten Storm Copyright 2018
240 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Taiwan has often been characterised as an isolated society in its search for sovereignty and security. Its contact with the world in an era of globalization and post-modernity, however, has increasingly led to Taiwanese actors successfully participating in many regional and global fields. In this book an international team of scholars presents cases studies and theoretical debates... Read more

1. Introduction, Carsten Storm

2. Framing Connectivity: Concepts and the Case of Taiwan, Carsten Storm

Part I Institutions

3. Politics of Repositioning and State Spatiality: From ‘Xiangtu China’ to ‘Oceanic Taiwan’, Bi-yu Chang 

4. The Taiwan–EU Economic Relationship: A Channel for Greater Assertiveness?, Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan 

5. Science Communication in Taiwan: Rethinking the Local and Global, Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley and Gary D. Rawnsley

Part II Individuals and Groups 

6. Taiwan’s Industrialization Policy in the Era of Globalization: From Sector Specific to Macro Management, Peter C. Y. Chow 

7. Across Borders: The Export of Taiwan’s Lingji Practices to Singapore, Fabian Graham 

8. The Impact of the Taiwanese LGBTQ Movement in Mainland China with a Specific Focus on the "Chinese Lala Alliance" and "Marriage Equality in Chinese Societies", Jens Damm

Part III Ideas 

9. Exporting Values or Exoticizing? Lee Ang and Global Cinema, Carsten Storm

10. The Literary Island: Isolation and Integration as Key Elements in Reading Taiwan Literature, Federica Passi 

11. United in Grief – The Individualisation of Death Rituals as Depicted in the Feature Films Seven Days in Heaven, Departures and Death at a Funeral, Birgit Häse

Biography

Carsten Storm currently teaches at the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. He works on Chinese and Taiwanese literature and film and focuses on narrative and aesthetic strategies in creating meaning and coherence.

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