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Ya-Chung Chuang
Democracy on Trial: Social Movements and Cultural Politics in Postauthoritarian Taiwan. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2013


22 îêòÿáðÿ 2015

The book provides a unique socio-cultural anthropological dissection of Taiwan, a newly organized democratic civil society, which for the author is both home and the fi eld, an object of study and yet also an area of hope and engagement. It negotiates the problem of writing about and understanding democracy and social movements in Taiwan, and what they can tell us about a place and country. The volume’s discourse encompasses multiple forms of grass-roots self-mobilization and societywide dialogue among activists, critics, and participants. Discursive and interpretative in nature, this book provides a different approach to a serious understanding of changing postwar Taiwan society


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