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Found 4 from your keywords: subject="Taiwan"
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Island tinkerers: innovation and transformation in the making of Taiwan's com…
Tinn, Honghong,

How Taiwan rose to global prominence in high tech manufacturing, from computer maker to the world's leading chip manufacturer. How did Taiwan, a former Japanese colony and the last fortress of the defeated Chinese Nationalists, ascend to such heights in high-tech manufacturing? In Island Tinkerers, Honghong Tinn tells the critical history of how hobbyists and enthusiasts in Taiwan, including…

Edition
-
ISBN/ISSN
9780262380270
Collation
ix, 429p. : ill.
Series Title
History of computing
Call Number
338.47621390951249 TIN i
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Island fantasia : imagining subjects on the military frontline between China …
Lin, Wei-Ping

The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule. With the lifting of martial law in 1992, the people were confronted with the question of how to move…

Edition
4
ISBN/ISSN
9781009023481
Collation
xviii; 310p; ill.
Series Title
-
Call Number
951.249 ISL W
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Outcasts of empire : japan's rule on taiwan's "savage border," 1874-1945
Barclay, Paul D., 1964-

"Outcasts of Empire unveils the causes and consequences of capitalism’s failure to “batter down all Chinese walls” in modern Taiwan. Adopting micro- and macrohistorical perspectives, Paul D. Barclay argues that the interpreters, chiefs, and trading-post operators who mediated state-society relations on Taiwan’s “savage border” during successive Qing and Japanese regimes rose to prom…

Edition
edision 26
ISBN/ISSN
9780520968806
Collation
xvii. ;ill. :301. p
Series Title
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Call Number
951.24904. OUT p
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Early film culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China : kaleidoscopic…
Yeh, Emilie Yueh-yu

This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground cinema’s relationship with imperialism and colonialism and emphasize the rapid development of cinema as a sociocultural institution. These essays examine where films were screened; how cinema-going as a…

Edition
-
ISBN/ISSN
9780472073726
Collation
ix, 354p. : ill.
Series Title
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Call Number
791.430951 YEH e