2nd Edition

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan

Edited By Gunter Schubert Copyright 2025
666 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

666 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

666 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This fully revised 2nd edition of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan provides a comprehensive overview of both contemporary Taiwan and the Taiwan studies field. Written by an international team of Taiwan experts, the Handbook includes major topics in Taiwanese history, domestic politics, political economy, society, culture, and international relations. Each chapter summarises the... Read more

Part 1: Political history

1. Taiwan in Late Ming and Qing China

Ann Heylen

2. Taiwan Under Japanese Rule (1895-1945)

Wan-Yao Chou

3. Retrocession and Authoritarian KMT Rule (1945-1987)

Thomas B. Gold

4. Taiwan’s Transition to Democracy and Beyond (1986-2024)

Kharis Templeman

Part 2: Government and politics

5. Taiwan’s Political Parties and Party Systems

Dafydd J. Fell

6. Party Ideology

Shelley Rigger

7. Elections

Timothy S. Rich and Jonathan Sullivan

8. National Identity

Christopher R. Hughes

9. Transitional Justice in Postwar Taiwan

Jau-Yuan Hwang

10. Politics and the Media

Jens Damm

Part 3: Political Economy

11. The Developmental State and Taiwan: Origins and adaptation    

Joseph Wong

12. Taiwan and Economic Globalization

Tse-Kang Leng and Kevin Kai-wen Tung

13. Taiwan’s Mainland Entrepreneurs (Taishang)

Gunter Schubert

14. Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy

Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao and Alan Hao Young

Part 4: Society and culture

15. The Development and Portrayal of Civil Society Organizations in Taiwan (1988–2023)

Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao

16. Indigenous Movements and Multicultural Taiwan    

Chun-Chieh Chi and Scott E. Simon      

17. Taiwan’s labor movement

Ming-sho Ho

18. Anti-Nuclear Power Movement

Simona A. Grano

19. Taiwan’s LGBT+ movement

Amélie Keyser-Verreault

20. Housing policy and their discontents

Yi-ling Chen

21. Immigration: Regulation and Cultural Representation

Isabelle Cockel and Hsin-Chin Evelyn Hsieh

22. Religion and Politics in Taiwan

André Laliberté

23. Modern Taiwan Literature

Ping-hui Liao

24. Contemporary Taiwan Cinema

Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley

25. Musical Soundscapes in Contemporary Taiwan

Nancy Guy

Part 5: Cross-strait relations

26. Cross-strait Dialogue and Policies

Ronan Tse-min Fu and Yu-Shan Wu

27. Cross-Strait Economic Integration and Disintegration (1992–2023)

Pei-Shan Lee and Yun-Han Chu

28. The China factor in Taiwan: social perceptions

Chen Chih-jou

Part 6: International relations and security

29. Taiwan’s Foreign Policy and International Space

Kwei-bo Huang

30. Security Policy

Richard Bush

31. Taiwan-U.S. Relations

James Lee and Cheng-Yi Lin

32. Taiwan-Japan Relations?

Kerry Brown

33. Taiwan-Europe/EU Relations

Gudrun Wacker

34. Taiwan’s Evolving Policies in Territorial Disputes of the East and South China Seas

Mumin Chen

35. Taiwan’s public diplomacy since 2016

Colin Alexander

Biography

Gunter Schubert is Professor of Greater China Studies at the Department of Chinese Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He is also the founder and director of the European Research Centre on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT), a central unit of the same university.