Tanners of Taiwan: Life Strategies and National Culture

by Scott Simon

Book Overview

Tanners of Taiwan is an ethnography of identity construction set in the leather-tanning communities of Southern Taiwan. Through life history analysis and ethnographic observation, Simon examines what it means to be Chinese - or alternatively Taiwanese - in contemporary Taiwan. Under forty years of martial law from 1947 to 1987, the Chinese Nationalist Party tried to create a Chinese identity in Taiwan through ideological campaigns that reached...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813341930
• ISBN13: 9780813341934
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"