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A detailed portrait and sophisticated analysis of married women working Taiwan's export factories.
Author : Ping-Chun Hsiung
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 31,68 MB
Release : 2011-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 143990765X
A detailed portrait and sophisticated analysis of married women working Taiwan's export factories.
Author : Ping-Chun Hsiung
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Women
ISBN :
Author : Doris Chang
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 10,81 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252090810
This book is the first in English to consider women's movements and feminist discourses in twentieth-century Taiwan. Doris T. Chang examines the way in which Taiwanese women in the twentieth century selectively appropriated Western feminist theories to meet their needs in a modernizing Confucian culture. She illustrates the rise and fall of women's movements against the historical backdrop of the island's contested national identities, first vis-à-vis imperial Japan (1895-1945) and later with postwar China (1945-2000). In particular, during periods of soft authoritarianism in the Japanese colonial era and late twentieth century, autonomous women's movements emerged and operated within the political perimeters set by the authoritarian regimes. Women strove to replace the "Good Wife, Wise Mother" ideal with an individualist feminism that meshed social, political, and economic gender equity with the prevailing Confucian family ideology. However, during periods of hard authoritarianism from the 1930s to the 1960s, the autonomous movements collapsed. The particular brand of Taiwanese feminism developed from numerous outside influences, including interactions among an East Asian sociopolitical milieu, various strands of Western feminism, and even Marxist-Leninist women's liberation programs in Soviet Russia. Chinese communism appears not to have played a significant role, due to the Chinese Nationalists' restriction of communication with the mainland during their rule on post-World War II Taiwan. Notably, this study compares the perspectives of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, whose husband led as the president of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1949 to 1975, and Hsiu-lien Annette Lu, Taiwan's vice president from 2000 to 2008. Delving into period sources such as the highly influential feminist monthly magazine Awakening as well as interviews with feminist leaders, Chang provides a comprehensive historical and cross-cultural analysis of the struggle for gender equality in Taiwan.
Author : Fu-Lai Tony Yu
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781600214981
Since the end of the Second World War, Taiwan has transformed in around 60 years time from a farmland to a high tech industrial economy. This book examines entrepreneurship, innovative systems and government policies in Taiwan.
Author : Chongqing Wu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9004326383
The seven articles in this collection all deal with the topic of “peasants, migrant workers and informal labor,” but each has a different emphasis on one of these elements.
Author : Ian Skoggard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 12,81 MB
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1315284952
Using Taiwan's third largest export industry - shoe manufacturing - as a case study, this work contends that economic development can be tied to Taiwan's own cultural history as well as to the influx of foreign capital or the initiatives of the state government.
Author : Samuel S. Kim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 24,16 MB
Release : 2000-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521775595
This book explores Korea's globalization and its impact on all aspects of Korean society.
Author : Lynn T White
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 2009-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9814469319
Why have Taiwan, rich parts of China, and Thailand boomed famously, while the Philippines has long remained stagnant both economically and politically? Do booms abet democracy? Does the rise of middle “classes” promise future liberalization? Why has Philippine democracy brought no boom and barely served the Filipino people?This book, unlike most previous studies, shows that both the roots and results of growth are largely political rather than economic. Specifically, it pays attention to local, not just national, power networks that caused or prevented growth in the four places under consideration. Violence has been common in these polities, along with money. Elections have contributed to socio-political problems that are also obvious in Leninist or junta regimes, because elections are surprisingly easy to buy with corrupt money from government contracts. Liberals should pay more serious theoretical attention to the effects of money on justice, and Western political science should focus more clearly on the ways non-state local power affects elections. By considering the effects on fair justice of local money and power (largely from small- and medium-sized firms that emerge after agrarian reforms), this book asks democrats to face squarely the extent to which electoral procedures fail to help ordinary citizens. Students and scholars of Asia will all need this book — as will students of the West whose methods have become parochial.
Author : Y. Kim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 21,72 MB
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137024623
At a time of significant change in the precarious world of female individualization, this collection explores such phenomena by critically incorporating the parameters of popular media culture into the overarching paradigm of gender relations, economics and politics of everyday life.
Author : Peiying Chen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 2004-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135934371
Acting Otherwise concerns the strategies of action that have been used by feminist scholars to attain the institutionalization of women's/gender studies in universities.