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Category: Taiwan

China/Current Events/English/Taiwan

Whither Taiwan?

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 6 Comments

If you were wondering how different the new Ma government in Taiwan would be from the DPP government it is replacing you should go read Michael Turton’s a...

China/Nationalism/Taiwan/Tibet

Unity across the Taiwan strait

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

Via China Digital Times a You Tube presentation for foreigners who know f****1 all about Chinese history explaining why Tibet was, is and always will be part of...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/English/Taiwan

Cool Taiwan election stuff

Posted on February 21, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

From Michael Turton.

China/Economics/Imperialism/Taiwan

Comparative Colonialism-Taiwan

Posted on February 7, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

 Japan Focus has a nice article by Anne Booth on Japanese colonialism in Taiwan (and Korea) The standard view is that the post-war development of both places ha...

China/Republican/Revolution/Taiwan

Taiwanese modernity

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One of my colleagues asked me a question about Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Three Times. For those of you who have not seen it, it is a set of three love stories all...

China/Social History/Taiwan/Web Sites and Resources

Miss Taiwan?

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 7 Comments

A hunting parting in Xinzhu, 1935   A great new resource provided by Paul Barclay of Lafayette College. They have digitized a great collection of photos of...

China/China-Japan/Civil War/English/Sino-Japanese Wars/Taiwan

Yang Tianshi on the Chiang Kai-Shek Diaries

Posted on December 31, 2007 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

Jonathan Benda reports on a talk by the historian Yang Tianshi on Chiang Kai-Shek’s diaries given at Tunghai university in Taiwan. Professor Yang is a ver...

China/English/Taiwan/Teaching/Web Sites and Resources

Comparing Taiwan to ….

Posted on December 11, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

I’m going to be teaching my 20th century China class for the second time in the Spring, and I still haven’t figured out how to handle Taiwan to my s...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Taiwan

The good helmsman

Posted on October 8, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

With double ten around the corner it seems a good time to discuss the vexed question of who was China’s greatest leader.1 Via ESNW we learn that at least ...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Current Events/Economics/English/Taiwan

Take grain as the key link

Posted on September 3, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Securing grain supplies and providing food security for the peasants was always one of the main duties of the Chinese state, partly because of their deep concer...

China/China-Japan/General/Japan/Qing/Taiwan/Web Sites and Resources

Taiwan gained and lost

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Japan (ahem) Focus has a great excerpt from MIT’s Emma J. Teng’s Taiwan’s Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing, 1683–1895 up this wee...

China/Current Events/English/Identity/Public History/Taiwan

A rose by any other name

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 11 Comments

As many of our readers already know, the Taiwanese government has re-named the Chiang Kai-shek memorial in Taibei, now known as the Taiwan Democracy Memorial Ha...

China/Republican/Taiwan/文庫

US Consular Report on Events in Taiwan after 2.28

Posted on May 16, 2007 by K. M. Lawson / 11 Comments

Though I haven’t read much on the events surrounding the 2.28 violence in Taiwan in 1947, it generated a lot of paperwork for the state department which I...

Books/China/Identity/Imperialism/Taiwan

How Taiwan Became Chinese

Posted on April 7, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

Salon.com is having an interesting little discussion of Tonio Andrade’s new book How Taiwan Became Chinese. I have not yet read the book, but I am familia...

China/English/Taiwan

Solar eclipse

Posted on March 27, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Via View from Taiwan we learn that the statue of Sun Yat-sen in the Presidential Palace in Taipei has been replaced with a potted plant.

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