Language Lab 2, Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road
The Oxford Taiwan Studies Group has been created by Oxford University Taiwanese Students Society (OUTSS) and Oxford Chinese Studies Society (OCSS). It offers reading group sessions at 15.30 on Mondays during term-time. Weekly reading groups take place in the Language Lab 2 (Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road, OX2 6LU). The Hilary Term card is shown below:
Week 2:
Aboriginal Taiwan Under Japanese Rule
P. D. Barclay (2017), Outcasts of Empire: Japan's Rule on Taiwan's "Savage Border," 1874-1945, Introduction
Week 3:
The Taiwan Miracle
Y. Wu (2005), A Political Explanation of Economic Growth
State Survival, Bureaucratic Politics, and Private Enterprises in the Making of Taiwan’s Economy, 1950–1985, Chapter 1
Week 4:
Party Politics
D. Fell (2005), Party Politics in Taiwan: Party Change and the Democratic Evolution of Taiwan, 1991-2004, Chapter 2
Week 5:
Identity Politics and the Diaspora
M. Brown (2004), Is Taiwan Chinese? The Impact of Culture, Power and Migration on Changing Identities, Chapter 1
or
Moore, F. (2021), Global Taiwanese: Asian Skilled Labour Migrants in a Changing World, Chapter 2
Week 6:
Kinship, Gender, and Demography
D. Chang (2009), Women's Movements in Twentieth-Century Taiwan, Chapter 5
Week 7:
Religion and Tradition
P. Clart and C. B. Jones (2003), Religion in Modern Taiwan: Tradition and Innovation in a Changing Society, Chapter 3
Week 8:
Arts and Cinema
W. H. Tung and G. Cipriani (2013), Art for Social Change and Cultural Awakening: An Anthropology of Residence in Taiwan, Chapter 3
