1st Edition

Politics of Difference in Taiwan

Edited By T.W. Ngo, Hong-zen Wang Copyright 2011
224 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Taiwan has been hailed as a successful case of democratization. Compared with many other nations, the transition from authoritarian rule occurred in a rather orderly fashion. Group consciousness emerged as a reaction to the decades-long suppression of cultural diversity under martial law as different social groups competed fiercely to exert their political subjectivity. This volume is the... Read more

1. Cultural Difference, Social Recognition, and Political Representation in Taiwan Tak-Wing Ngo and Hong-zen Wang   2. Multiculturalism and Indigenism: Contrasting the Experiences of Canada and Taiwan Scott Simon   3. Liminality and Taiwan Tropism in a Postcolonial Context: Schemes of National Identification among Taiwan’s "Mainlanders" on the Eve of Kuomintang’s Return to Power Stéphane Corcuff   4. The Fabrication of Differences among Kaohsiung Dockworkers Yi-Chi Chen and Tak-Wing Ngo   5. Manufacturing Manhood: The Culture of Hegemonic Masculinity in Taiwan’s Labor Movement Ming-sho Ho   6. Classism in Immigration Control and Migrant Integration Yen-Fen Tseng and Yukiko Komiya   7. Strategies of Alliance among Cross-Border Families and Chinese Marriage Immigrants Melody Chia-Wen Lu   8. Politics of Negotiation between Vietnamese Wives and Taiwanese Husbands Wen-hui Anna Tang, Danièle Bélanger, and Hong-zen Wang   9. Discrimination and Backlash against Homosexual Groups Jens Damm   10. Assessing (Multi)culturalism through Public Art Practices Anru Lee and Perng-juh Peter Shyong

Biography

Tak-Wing Ngo is IIAS Professor of Asian History at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Hong-zen Wang is Professor and Director of the Graduate Institute of Sociology, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan.