Tanners of Taiwan

Life Strategies and National Culture

By:

Scott Simon

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Case Studies in Anthropology

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Tanners of Taiwan examines what it means to be Chinese - or alternatively Taiwanese - in the leather-tanning communities of Southern Taiwan Under forty years of martial law from 1947 to 1987, the Chinese Nationalist Party tried to create a Chinese identity in Taiwan through ideological campaigns that reached deep into families, schools and workplaces. They justified their rule through a development narrative that Chinese culture and good policy contributed to the prosperity of the Taiwan miracle. These ideological claims and cultural identities, however, have never been fully accepted in Southern Taiwan. This ethnography is the first to document from the ground level how those claims have been contested, and how a new Taiwanese identity has been constructed since democratization. Tanners of Taiwan provides more than a description of workplaces in Taiwan. Looking at the different perspectives of tanners, women managers, and workers, it demonstrates how cultural and other identities are constructed through dynamics of power and political economy.

Author Biography:

Scott Simon is Professor of Sociology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He previously lived and worked in Taiwan, and has been researching the Taiwanese development experience from different perspectives since 1996.

Release date Australia

March 4th, 2005

Author

Scott Simon

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

196

Series

Case Studies in Anthropology

Dimensions

152x229x10

ISBN-13

9780813341934

Product ID

3617114

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