From Social Visibility to Political Invisibility: The School in Nationalist Taiwan as Fulcrum for an Evolving World Ethos

by Allen Chun

This book began as a year-long ethnography of a school in Taiwan in 1991 then evolved more into a historical sociology of national formation and its cultural mindset. Cultural nationalism is a widely debated but poorly understood process. Contrary to prevailing perceptions, the Cold War may have given way to a more progressive open society, but the politicization of ethnicity hardened a more deeply entrenched cultural frame of mind. Instead of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9819920175
• ISBN13: 9789819920174
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"