In Assessing the Landscape of Taiwan and Korean Studies in Comparison, the chapters offer a reflection on the state of the field of Taiwan and Korea Studies. For the editors, the volume’s purpose was to identify not just their similarities, but also a reflection on their differences. Both have national identities formed in a colonial period. The surrender of Japan in 1945 ignited the light of independence for Korea, but this would be ideologically split within five years. For Taiwan, that end forced it into a born-again form of nationalism with the arrival of the Chinese Nationalists.

Taiwan and South Korea’s economic development illustrate a progressive transition and key to understanding this is the relationship between ‘modernization’ and ‘democracy’. By looking at Korea and Taiwan, the chapters in the volume broaden an understanding of the interconnectivity of the region.
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In Assessing the Landscape of Taiwan and Korean Studies in Comparison, the chapters offer a reflection on the state of the field of Taiwan and Korea Studies. By looking at the two, the chapters in the volume broaden an understanding of the interconnectivity of the region.
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List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Comparing Taiwan and Korea   J. Bruce Jacobs 2 Korean Colonial Cosmopolitanism   Michael J. Seth 3 Taiwan in Transformation  The Japanese Colonial Era   Evan Dawley 4 ROC-ROK International Fate  Decolonization, Democratization, and Pragmatism   Moises de Souza and Fabricio A. Fonseca 5 Tzu-Chi and the ‘Moonies’  New Religious Movements in Taiwan and South Korea   Niki J.P. Alsford and Nataša Visočnik 6 Park Geun-hye and Tsai Ing-wen  The First Female Presidents of South Korea and Taiwan   Young-Im Lee 7 East Asian Area Studies Teaching Programmes in the United Kingdom  A Comparative Case Study of Korean Studies at the University of Central Lancashire and Taiwan Studies at SOAS, University of London   Dafydd Fell and Sojin Lim Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9789004461307
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Brill
Vekt
458 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Biografisk notat

J. Bruce Jacobs, PhD (1975), Columbia University, was Professor of Asian Languages and Studies at Monash University. Bruce published on Taiwan, including Democratising Taiwan (BRILL, 2012) and The Kaohsiung Incident in Taiwan and Memoirs of a Foreign Big Beard (BRILL, 2016).

Niki J.P. Alsford, PhD (2015), SOAS, is Professor at University of Central Lancashire. He has published his research on Taiwan, including Transitions to Modernity in Taiwan: The spirit of 1895 and the cession of Formosa to Japan (Routledge, 2017).

Sojin Lim, PhD (2011), University of Manchester, is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at University of Central Lancashire. She has published research on Korea, including Aid Modalities Determinants: South Korea Triangular Cooperation and Implication towards North Korea (North Korean Review, 2019).