Century of Development in Taiwan

Edited by Peter C.Y. Chow, Professor of Economics, City College and Graduate Center, City University of New York, US

• Contents:Foreword: learning history xiiEdward FriedmanForeword xviiiMasahiro WakabayashiPreface and acknowledgment xxiPART I INTRODUCTION1 From colony to modern state: an overview of Taiwan’spath of development 2Peter C.Y. ChowPART II TAIWANESE IDENTITY, POLITICALDEVELOPMENT, AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS2 Taiwan’s international relations 17June Teufel Dreyer3 From a province to a sovereign state: Taiwan’s politicalchanges as reflected in the three critical years 1951, 1971and 1991 40Yi-Shen Chen4 Rethinking Taiwanese ethnicity: notes on recent historicalscholarship 57Lung-Chih Chang5 Identity in formation and transformation: dynamics ofnational identity change after Taiwan’s democratization 70Shiau-chi ShenPART III ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SINCE THE 1920S6 Taiwan’s industrialization and Southeast Asia during theJapanese period: a miracle growth in prewar Taiwan 92Frank S.T. Hsiao7 The path of Taiwan’s industrial development: fromfollower to innovator 146Peter C.Y. Chow8 Money and banking in Taiwan: country identity and thetop trade partner 176Hong-Jen Abraham LinPART IV SOCIETAL AND EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT9 The rise and fall of civil society movements in Taiwan:1920–2020 194Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao10 A century of colonial education by Japan and the KMT/ROC party-state, 1898–1997: a comparative study of theproblems of Taiwan’s national identity 217Wan-yao Chou11 Transformation of women’s status in Taiwan, 1920–2020 240Doris T. ChangPART V LITERATURE AND CULTURALDEVELOPMENT IN TAIWAN12 The rise and fall of cultural theatre and new theatre, fromthe 1920s to the 1960s 263Yin-Chen Kang13 Modern Taiwan Literature of Taiwan: between China andthe world 286Michelle Yeh14 Hybrid theatre: the origin and development of creativeTaiwanese opera 302Jasmine Yu-Hsing Chen15 A century of struggle over Taiwan’s culturalself-consciousness: the life and afterlife of ChiangWei-shui and the Taiwan Cultural Association 320Fang-long ShihCorresponding table of Wade-Giles/Taigi and Pinyinromanization of Chinese names and terms 353Index

‘Peter Chow is to be congratulated for assembling this collection of fascinating studies of various aspects of Taiwanese politics, sociology, culture and economics during the past century. The chapters include analyses of aspects of Taiwanese history hitherto little discussed in Anglophone literature, thus making an important and original contribution to the international field of interdisciplinary Taiwan studies.’