Taiwan: A New History

A New History

Murray A. Rubinstein

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317459071
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Ethnic Studies

This is a comprehensive portrait of Taiwan. It covers the major periods in the development of this small but powerful island province/nation. The work is designed in the style of the multi-volume "Cambridge History of China".

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface to the Expanded Edition
• Introduction
• 1. The Shaping of Taiwan’s Landscapes
• 2. The Politics of Taiwan Aboriginal Origins
• 3. Up the Mountains and Out to the Sea
• 4. The Seventeenth-Century Transformation
• 5. The Island Frontier of the Ch’ing, 1684–1780
• 6. From Landlords to Local Strongmen
• 7. From Treaty Ports to Provincial Status, 1860–1894
• 8. Taiwan Under Japanese Rule, 1895–1945
• 9. Taiwanese New Literature and the Colonial Context
• 10. Between Assimilation and Independence
• 11. A Bastion Created, A Regime Reformed, An Economy Reengineered, 1949–1970
• 12. Identity and Social Change in Taiwanese Religion
• 13. Taiwan’s Socioeconomic Modernization, 1971–1996
• 14. Literature in Post-1949 Taiwan, 1950 to 1980s
• 15. Aboriginal Self-Government
• 16. Political Taiwanization and Pragmatic Diplomacy
• 17. Taiwan Enters Troubled Waters
• Conclusion: Resonating Themes in Taiwan’s History
• Contributors
• Index