The Global Silicon Valley Home: Lives and Landscapes Within Taiwanese American Trans-Pacific Culture

by Shenglin Chang

Book Overview

The economic boom of the 1990s that led to the rapid rise of computer hardware and software companies (on both sides of the Pacific Rim) also led to the rise of a trans-Pacific commuter culture, a culture in which thousands of Taiwanese-born high-tech engineers realized that they could greatly increase their career opportunities by establishing a life-style that allowed them and their families to regularly commute between two homes, one in Silicon...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080475215X
• ISBN13: 9780804752152
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"