{"id":330,"date":"2007-12-11T03:25:24","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T08:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/2007\/12\/comparing-taiwan-to\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:38:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:38:54","slug":"comparing-taiwan-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2007\/12\/comparing-taiwan-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing Taiwan to …."},"content":{"rendered":"

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 satisfaction. Ideally, I’d assign one of the new survey histories — Taiwan: A New History<\/i> is in my office somewhere — but it’s enough work getting through the books I already assign<\/a> with my students. Spence, for all his virtues, doesn’t really do Taiwan any justice in the later sections of The Search for Modern China<\/i>1<\/a><\/sup> so something<\/i> needs to be done.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that’s why I was particularly pleased to see a notice from Jonathan Benda<\/a> about the first edition of the e-journal Taiwan in Comparative Perspectives<\/a>. There are some interesting-looking articles: I skimmed the intro to one because I couldn’t tell from the title what it was about (it was about architecture, which I would have known if I knew anything about architecture) and skimmed through the one on comparative public memory as a possible reading for late in the semester. There’s a small book review section, but it includes — already in the first issue! — an unhappy response from the author of a reviewed book, which I love.2<\/a><\/sup> There’s a thought-provoking, but pie-in-the-sky, article about the EU sovereignty model in relation to the Taiwan sovereignty question which I might well have to give to my China-US grad students. It’s all from a research group at the London School of Economics, and it’s free, so there’s no reason not<\/i> to take a look at it.<\/p>\n

  1. though I find the earlier sections quite good, very teachable  ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li>

  2. it’s the part I read first, in every journal I get: Communications to the Editor! Is this odd?  ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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 satisfaction. Ideally, I’d assign one of the new survey histories — Taiwan: A New History is in my office somewhere — but it’s enough work getting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[165,119,161,163,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-english","category-taiwan","category-teaching","category-web-sites-and-resources"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-5k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4898,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/4898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}