ISBN:
9780415564076
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 213 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge research on Taiwan 4
Parallel Title:
Print version Politics of Difference in Taiwan
DDC:
305.80095124/9
Keywords:
Minorities
;
Cultural pluralism
;
Taiwan Social conditions 2000-
Abstract:
Offering systematic coverage of major social groups including ethnic minorities, recent migrants, gay and lesbian groups, religious sects, and marginalized workers this is the first study to investigate the multiple facets of social domination in Taiwan and the ongoing struggles by minority groups to overcome subordination
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Politics of Difference in Taiwan; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; 1. Cultural difference, social recognition and political representation in Taiwan; 2. Multiculturalism and indigenism: contrasting the experiences of Canada and Taiwan; 3. Liminality and Taiwan tropism in a postcolonial context: schemes of national identification among Taiwan's 'Mainlanders' on the eve of Kuomintang's return to power; 4. The fabrication of differences among Kaohsiung dockworkers; 5. Manufacturing manhood: the culture of hegemonic masculinity in Taiwan's labour movement
Description / Table of Contents:
6. Classism in immigration control and migrant integration7. Strategies of alliance among cross-border families and Chinese marriage immigrants; 8. Politics of negotiation between Vietnamese wives and Taiwanese husbands; 9. Discrimination and backlash against homosexual groups; 10. Assessing (multi)culturalism through public art practices; Index;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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