Title Chinese working-class lives : getting by in Taiwan / Hill Gates

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1987

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages : map) Series Cornell paperbacks Anthropology of contemporary issues Anthropology of contemporary issues. Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Chinese Romanizations -- [1] Introduction -- [2] Fieldwork in Taiwan: Becoming a Little Chinese -- [3] An Island of Immigrants -- [4] The Changing Political Economy under the Nationalists -- [5] Working for a Living -- [6] Home and Family -- [7] Women and Men, Old and Young -- [8] Folk Religions, Old and New -- [9] Education, the Great Escape -- [10] Conclusions -- Source Materials on Taiwan -- References -- Index Summary Taiwan's working class has been shaped by Chinese tradition, by colonialism, and by rapid industrialization. This book defines that class, explores that history, and presents with sensitive honesty the life experiences of some of its women and men. Hill Gates first provides a solid and informative introduction to Taiwan's history, showing how mainland China, Japan, the convulsions of twentieth-century wars, and the East Asian economic expansion interacted in forming Taiwanese urban life. She introduces nine individuals from Taiwan's three major ethnic groups to tell the stories of their lives in their own words. The narrators include a fortuneteller, a woman laborer, and a retired air force mechanic. A former spirit medium and a janitor are among the others who speak Analysis Taiwan Working classes Social conditions Bibliography Bibliography: p. 231-250 Notes Includes index Subject Working class -- Taiwan Working class. working class. workers. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural Manners and customs Social conditions Working class Gesellschaft Chinezen. Arbeidersklasse. Sociaal-economische situatie. Travailleurs -- Taiwan. SUBJECT Taiwan -- Social life and customs -- 1975- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86005021 Taiwan -- Social conditions -- 1975-1988. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89004161 Subject Taiwan Taiwan Taiwan -- Moeurs et coutumes -- 1945-.... Taiwan -- Conditions sociales -- 1945-.... Form Electronic book LC no. 87047597 ISBN 9781501719912 1501719912 9781501727900 1501727907

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