This fully revised 2nd edition of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan provides a comprehensive overview of both contemporary Taiwan and the Taiwan studies field.
Written by an international team of Taiwan experts, the Handbook includes major topics in Taiwanese history, domestic politics, political economy, society, culture and international relations. Each chapter summarises the major findings in the field and highlights long-term trends, recent observations, and potential future developments in Taiwan, revealing Taiwan's long journey from a frontier island to a highly industrialised country struggling for international recognition.
Up-to-date, interdisciplinary, and academically rigorous and offering the reader an accessible and fascinating insight into contemporary Taiwan, the Handbook will be of interest to students, academics and policymakers with an interest in all things Taiwan.
1. Taiwan in Late Ming and Qing China
Ann Heylen
2. Taiwan Under Japanese Rule (1895-1945)
Wan-Yao Chou
3. Retrocession and Authoritarian KMT Rule (1945-1987)
Thomas B. Gold
4. Taiwan’s Transition to Democracy and Beyond (1986-2024)
Kharis Templeman
Part 2: Government and politics
5. Taiwan’s Political Parties and Party Systems
Dafydd J. Fell
6. Party Ideology
Shelley Rigger
7. Elections
Timothy S. Rich and Jonathan Sullivan
8. National Identity
Christopher R. Hughes
9. Transitional Justice in Postwar Taiwan
Jau-Yuan Hwang
10. Politics and the Media
Jens Damm
11. The Developmental State and Taiwan: Origins and adaptation
Joseph Wong
12. Taiwan and Economic Globalization
Tse-Kang Leng and Kevin Kai-wen Tung
13. Taiwan’s Mainland Entrepreneurs (Taishang)
Gunter Schubert
14. Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy
Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao and Alan Hao Young
15. The Development and Portrayal of Civil Society Organizations in Taiwan (1988–2023)
Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao
16. Indigenous Movements and Multicultural Taiwan
Chun-Chieh Chi and Scott E. Simon
17. Taiwan’s labor movement
Ming-sho Ho
18. Anti-Nuclear Power Movement
Simona A. Grano
19. Taiwan’s LGBT+ movement
Amélie Keyser-Verreault
20. Housing policy and their discontents
Yi-ling Chen
21. Immigration: Regulation and Cultural Representation
Isabelle Cockel and Hsin-Chin Evelyn Hsieh
22. Religion and Politics in Taiwan
André Laliberté
23. Modern Taiwan Literature
Ping-hui Liao
24. Contemporary Taiwan Cinema
Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley
25. Musical Soundscapes in Contemporary Taiwan
Nancy Guy
Part 5: Cross-strait relations
26. Cross-strait Dialogue and Policies
Ronan Tse-min Fu and Yu-Shan Wu
27. Cross-Strait Economic Integration and Disintegration (1992–2023)
Pei-Shan Lee and Yun-Han Chu
28. The China factor in Taiwan: social perceptions
Chen Chih-jou
Part 6: International relations and security
29. Taiwan’s Foreign Policy and International Space
Kwei-bo Huang
30. Security Policy
Richard Bush
31. Taiwan-U.S. Relations
James Lee and Cheng-Yi Lin
32. Taiwan-Japan Relations?
Kerry Brown
33. Taiwan-Europe/EU Relations
Gudrun Wacker
34. Taiwan’s Evolving Policies in Territorial Disputes of the East and South China Seas
Mumin Chen
35. Taiwan’s public diplomacy since 2016
Colin Alexander
Biography
Gunter Schubert is Professor of Greater China Studies at the Department of Chinese Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He is also the founder and director of the European Research Centre on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT), a central unit of the same university.
