Tanners of Taiwan: Life Strategies and National Culture

by Scott Simon

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Tanners of Taiwan is an ethnography of identity construction set in the leather-tanning communities of Southern Taiwan. Through life history analysis and ethnographic observation, Simon examines what it means to be Chinese - or alternatively Taiwanese - in contemporary Taiwan. Under forty years of martial law from 1947 to 1987, the Chinese Nationalist Party tried to create a Chinese identity in Taiwan through ideological campaigns that reached...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0813341930

ISBN13:9780813341934

Release Date:February 2005

Publisher:Routledge

Length:196 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

Anthropology Asia Cultural Education & Reference History Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Taiwan

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