196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
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Tanners of Taiwan is an ethnography of identity construction set in the leather-tanning communities of Southern Taiwan. Through life history analysis and ethnographic observation, Simon examines what it means to be Chinese - or alternatively Taiwanese - in contemporary Taiwan. Under forty years of martial law from 1947 to 1987, the Chinese Nationalist Party tried to create a Chinese identity in... Read more
Series Editor Preface , Notes on Transliteration of Mandarin and Taiwanese , Introduction , Historical Contexts , Social Background , Tanners and Family Firms , Corporate and Firm Networks , Women and Enterprise , Workers and Bosses , Cross-Strait Investment and National Identity , Political Movements—Toward a Free Taiwan , Glossary , The Labor Process of Leather Tanning
Biography
Scott Simon
