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Tag Archives: Taiwan
Civil Society and State in Democratic East Asia
Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia: Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth is a collection edited by David Chiavacci, Simona Grano and Julia Obinger, published by Amsterdam University Press in 2020. It is reviewed for … Continue reading
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Tagged civil society, David Chiavacci, East Asia, Japan, Julia Obinger, Michael K. Connors, Simona Grano, South Korea, state, Taiwan
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Cold War and Meanings of Democracy in Taiwan
“More Than Anti-Communism: The Cold War and the Meanings of Democracy in Taiwan” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2020.1716990) is a new article by Erik Mobrand of the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University, South Korea. This article is the fifth for … Continue reading
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Tagged Cold War, democratisation, East Asia, elections, Erik Mobrand, South Korea, Taiwan
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Cold War Competition over the Taiwan Strait
In a new post at the publisher’s website, co-editor Geoffrey Gunn reviews a new book Strait Rituals: China, Taiwan, and the United States in the Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1954–1958, authored by Pang Yang Huei and published by Hong Kong University … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Cold War, Geoffrey Gunn, Pang Yang Huei, Taiwan, USA
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JCA Prize 2019
The editors of the Journal of Contemporary Asia are pleased to announce the annual award for the best article published in 2018. The judging panel awarded the Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize of $1,000, a letter of commendation and a … Continue reading
On “Chineseness”
Justin Wu is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has reviewed Allen Chun’s Forget Chineseness: On the Geopolitics of Cultural Identification, published by the State University of New … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Chun, capitalism, China, Chinese overseas, Chineseness, globalisation, Hong Kong, imperialism, Justin Wu, Singapore, Taiwan
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Issue 3 for 2018 published
Issue number 3 for Volume 48 (2018) of the journal has gone to print and is available electronically at the publisher’s site. This number is a regular issue, featuring six research articles, a commentary and four book reviews. Two of … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam B. Lerner, Alec Gordon, Anti-nuclear movement, anti-royalism, Ashley South, Bernice Maxton-Lee, Burma, colonial surplus, conservation, Constitutionalism, deforestation, elderly workers, India, Indonesia, Jacob Ricks, Jonathan Liljeblad, Kevin Hewison, Ming-sho Ho, monarchy, Myanmar, Natasha Hamilton-Hart, Political neo-Malthusianism, Precarious work, Rice politics, Seung-Ho Baek, social movements, Sophia Seung-Yoon Lee, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Yun-Young Kim
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The Making of Taiwan’s Anti-Nuclear Movement
Ming-sho Ho is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the National Taiwan University. His most recent article with JCA has just been published his most recent JCA article. “Taiwan’s Anti-Nuclear Movement: The Making of a Militant Citizen Movement” … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-nuclear movement, environmentalism, Ming-sho Ho, movement strategy, protest, social movements, Taiwan
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The End of the Developmental State
Iain Pirie of the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick in the UK has been a keen participant in debates about the developmental state in East Asia. In his new article, “Korea and Taiwan: The … Continue reading