Chinese Working-Class Lives Getting By in Taiwan / Hill Gates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gates, Hill.

en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op, Author.

Contributor:

en Book Program, funder.

Series:

Anthropology of contemporary issues.

Cornell paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class--Taiwan.

Working class.

Taiwan--Social conditions--1975-1988.

Taiwan.

Taiwan--Social life and customs--1975-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 256 p. :) map ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cornell University Press 2018

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1987.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Hill Gates has retired as a lecturer in anthropology at Stanford University. She is the author of China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism and Looking for Chengdu: A Woman's Adventures in China, both from Cornell University Press.

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.

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 231-250.

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ISBN:

9780801494611

0801494613

9780801420566

0801420563

9781501719912

1501719912

OCLC:

1029272300

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access