Connecting Taiwan

<p>Taiwan has often been characterised as an isolated society in its search for sovereignty and security. Its contact with the world in an era of globalization and post-modernity however has increasingly led to Taiwanese actors successfully participating in many regional and global fields.</p><p>In this book an international team of scholars presents cases studies and theoretical debates emphasising agency in coping with the effects of globalisation. In so doing they contest the image of Taiwan’s marginalization and seek to understand it in terms of its connectedness whether globally regionally or trans-nationally. Taking a multi-disciplinary comparative approach it covers themes such as markets and trading diplomacy and nation-branding collective action media film and literature and religious mission. It thus combines perspectives from several disciplines including media studies sociology political science and studies in religion. </p><p>Using Taiwan as an example of how to conceptualise connectivity and think differently about comparative studies this book will be useful for students and scholars of Asian Politics and Cultural Studies as well as of Taiwan Studies more specifically. </p>