...Zach Fredman Strait Rituals: China, Taiwan, and the United States in the Taiwan Strait Crises, 1954–1958 . By Pang Yang Huei . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2019 . xviii, 317 pp. ISBN: 9789888208302 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020...

...A. James Gregor The Future of Taiwan: A Difference of Opinion . Edited by Victor Hao Li . White Plains, N.Y. : M. E. Sharpe , 1980 . 187 pp. 14 Appendixes. $17.50. Growth with Equity: The Taiwan Case . By John C. H. Fei , Gustav Ranis , and Shirley W. Y. Kuo , with the assistance...

...Yoshihisa Amae; Kate Zhou Across the Taiwan Strait: Mainland China, Taiwan and the 1995–1996 Crisis . Edited by Suisheng Zhao . New York : Routledge , 1999 . vii, 306 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $24.99 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 858 THE JOURNAL...

...Alexander C. Y. Huang Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 The field of Taiwan cinema recently has witnessed a burst of new energy and talents, evidenced by a stream of books and collections of essays. However, few studies are devoted exclusively to Taiwan cinema...

...Ramon Myers Taiwan keizai sōgō kenkyū. [Selected Studies of the Taiwan Economy] Edited by Sassamoto Takeji and Kawano Shigetō. Tokyo : Ajiya Keizai Shuppankai , 1968 . Volume I: 421 pp. 1300 yen. Volume II: 412 pp., 1300 yen. Volume III: 356 pp., ¥1300. Copyright © The Association...

...Steven M. Goldstein Untying the Knot: Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait . By Richard C. Bush . Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press , 2005 . xii , 416 pp. $32.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Dangerous Strait: The U.S.-Taiwan-China Crisis . Edited by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker...

...Edwin A. Winckler Two Societies in Opposition: The Republic of China and the People's Republic of China after Forty Years . Edited by Ramon H. Myers . Stanford, Calif : Hoover Institution Press , 1991 . liv, 370 pp. $38.95 (cloth); $25.95 (paper). Political Change on Taiwan...

...Frederick W. Mote Abstract Everyone with interests in Chinese studies who has had occasion to become aware of it will agree that within the past two or three years there has been a marked upswing in the quantity and in the quality of publication in Taiwan. The present writer observed some...

..., that in the midst of a bitter war the most dangerous spies ever captured were given the benefit of every protection offered by Japanese law." (Willoughby, 124) GEORGE ALEXANDER LENSEN Florida State University Colonial Development and Population in Taiwan. By GEORGE W. BARCLAY. Princeton: Princeton University Press...

...Chang Han-Yu; Ramon H. Myers Abstract Japan's acquisition and development of Taiwan did not stem from the efforts of a capitalist class seeking cheaper resources and new market outlets, or engaging in dumping practices to maintain a high rate of domestic profit. Taiwan's economic transformation...

...Norton Ginsburg Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 Taiwan-ilha Formosa: A Geography in Perspective . By Chiao-min Hsieh . Washington : Butterworth's , 1964 . vii, 372 , Maps, Tables, Photographs, Graphs, Index, Bibliography, n.p. 338 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Charles H. C. Kao Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 Agricultural Development on Taiwan Since World War II . By T. H. Shen . Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press , 1964 . xxix, 399 . $7.50. BOOK REVIEWS 339 (p. 124) and a useful chapter dealing...

...John L. Rawlinson Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 Taiwan in China's Foreign Relations, 1836–1874 . By Sophia Su-fei Yen . Hamden, Connecticut : The Shoe String Press, Inc. , 1965 . xii, 404 , Notes, Bibliography, Index. $7.00. BOOK REVIEWS 531...

...Susan Brownell Empire of Infields: Baseball in Taiwan and Cultural Identity, 1895–1968 . By John J. Harney . Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press , 2019 . 212 pp. ISBN: 9780803286825 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 If one were...

...Sara A. Newland State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance . By Julia C. Strauss . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2019 . 280 pp. ISBN: 9781108701655 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021 State...

...Fang Yu Hu Statebuilding by Imposition: Resistance and Control in Colonial Taiwan and the Philippines . By Reo Matsuzaki . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2019 . xiv, 241 pp. ISBN: 9781501734830 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020...

... processes that the middle-class children interviewed undergo, both in Taiwan and in Boston. Lan reviews the phenomena of “natural moms and weekend dads” (p. 71), “educational mothers and astronaut fathers” (p. 60), and “geese parents”—all terms used to describe the investment these parents make...

..., Taiwan, Korea, and the Philippines . Edited by Yujiro Hay Ami , Vernon W. Ruttan , and Herman M. Southworth . Honolulu : The University Press of Hawaii , 1979 . xii , 404 pp. Index. $15.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 335...

...Jing Jing Chang Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China: Kaleidoscopic Histories . Edited by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh . Ann Arbor : Michigan University Press , 2018 . 354 pp. ISBN: 9780472053728 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019...

...Yu-Jie Chen The book offers compelling and stimulating analysis with regard to Taiwan's enduring endeavor to search for identity and create its own deserving place in the world despite China's constant suppression. It is challenging to write about Taiwan on its own terms. It is doubly...