Taiwan in the Twentieth Century : A Retrospective View (The China Quarterly Special Issues)

Review
"Scholars in Taiwan began looking closely at the Japanese colonial era between ten and twenty years ago. This interesting and broad-ranging volume is the first to bring that research out in a widely accessible, English-language forum. Taiwan in the Twentieth Century makes a very useful and original contribution to the field of Taiwan studies. Historians and social scientists alike will enjoy the book, which would also be useful for teaching courses in the history and historiography of Taiwan, China, and imperial Japan." The Journal of Asian Studies


Book Description
This collection brings together a group of experts on Taiwan who attempt to analyze change on this dynamic island during the twentieth century. Thus, in contrast to many works on Taiwan, this collection reveals how important the Japanese colonial antecedents were to the formation of today's Taiwan and illuminates the complexity of the problems this island will face in the twenty-first century.


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This book brings together a group of experts on Taiwan who attempt to analyse change on this dynamic island during the whole of the Twentieth Century. Thus in contrast to many works on Taiwan, the nine papers show just how important the Japanese colonial antecedents were to the formation of today's Taiwan and help us to understand the complexity of the problems this island will face in the Twenty-first Century. The work of the various authors, many of them young Taiwanese, also show clearly that a simple divide of Taiwan's Twentieth Century history with the retrocession to Chinese rule in 1945 is not adequate for understanding the development of this island.


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