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Taiwan: A New History (Taiwan in the Modern World)
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by Murray A. Rubinstein
Sales Rank: 1188560
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List Price: $29.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 520 pages
Published by: East Gate Book February 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1563248166
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1563248160
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 1.3 inches
Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Reader Reviews
This book was a major disappointment. Each chapter is written by a different person; the book is really just a collection of dry academic articles slapped together, with no organizing structure. The alleged editor is also one of the contributing authors, and it doesn't appear that he did much editing at all. The overall quality of the book is substandard, with amateurish and badly printed black and white photographs taken by the editor. Worst of all, judging by the first two selections, the writing is pretty awful. Here's a sample of the obtuse academic style you will find in this volume: "The Chinese hegemonic project of making Taiwanese aborigines part of the Chinese nation was incompatible with the developing counterhegemonic aboriginal project of affirming their distinct identity and political rights as indigenous people." (page 37) Hard to believe that such a passage could have been written by a native English speaker, much less that it actually got published! Instead of this volume, I recommend Denny Roy's book, which is quite well-written.
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