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Language: en
Pages: 204
Pages: 204
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Columbia University Press
An English-language school for prostitutes opens in Taiwan. It is the brainchild of a pimp who is keen to improve service for American soldiers on R & R from th
Language: en
Pages: 210
Pages: 210
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-04-16 - Publisher: Columbia University Press
In this lively translation of Wang Chen-ho's ribald satire, a Taiwanese village loses all perspective—and common sense—at the prospect of fleecing a shiploa
Language: en
Pages: 196
Pages: 196
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: University Press
In the English-language publication market, this book is one of the earliest, and perhaps the first academic book focusing on Taiwanese women and gender issues
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Public discourse on cultural identity was not possible on the island of Taiwan until martial law was lifted there in 1987. While until then culture had mainly b
Language: en
Pages: 373
Pages: 373
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-03-31 - Publisher: BRILL
This book is a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study which compares responses to modernity in the literary cultures of Japan and Taiwan, 1960-1990. Moving bey