Table of Contents

The Other Taiwan; Introduction “The Taiwan Miracle”; I: Contexts; 1: Competing Identities in Taiwan; 2: Taiwanese Society in Transition: Reconciling Confucianism and Pluralism; II: Political Change; 3: Social Protests and Political Democratization in Taiwan; 4: Taiwan Factions: Guanxi, Patronage, and the State in Local Politics; 5: From Democratic Movement to Bourgeois Democracy: The Internal Politics of the Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party in 1991; III: The Other Economy; 6: Not by Rule of Law: Mediating State–Society Relations in Taiwan through the Underground Economy; 7: Vulnerability and Change in Taiwan's Agriculture; IV: The Environmental Movement; 8: Paying the Price of Economic Development in Taiwan: Environmental Degradation; 9: The Emergence of an Environmental Consciousness in Taiwan; V: Gender Issues; 10: Women's Liberation: The Taiwanese Experience; 11: The Social Discourse on Women's Roles in Taiwan: A Textual Analysis; 12: Changing Patters of Women's Employment in Taiwan, 1966–1986; VI: Questions of Ethnic Identity; 13: Language Unification in Taiwan: Present and Future; 14: The Emergence of a Taiwanese Popular Culture; 15: From Shanbao to Yuanzhumin: Taiwan Aborigines in Transition; VII: Religion in Transition; 16: Yiguan Dao: “Heterodoxy” and Popular Religion in Taiwan; 17: The New Testament Church and the Taiwanese Protestant Community

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Murray A. Rubinstein