Mama's Home in Taiwan
Mama's Home in Taiwan

Author: Chris Huang

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11-04

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781954729889

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MAMA's HOME IN TAIWAN is a children's picture book about a child's adventure traveling through Taiwan. Come along and learn the culture of mom's home country, enjoy the company of family, and fall in love with Taiwan.MAMA's HOME IN TAIWAN sketches the real story of modern Taiwanese immigrants, nurturing the next generation to identify with their motherland and be proud of being Taiwanese-Americans.Written in Traditional Chinese Zhuyin, Pinyin and English, MAMA's HOME IN TAIWAN is perfect for both native and non-native Chinese speakers. It is illustrated and written by bilingual children's book author and illustrator, Chris Huang. Her fun, cute and creative and original illustrations easily capture children's learning interests. Pinyin and English will help you and your child to read and learn without being fluent in Chinese.This book is suitable for parents to read to children ages 3 and up, for parent and children 3-5 years old to read together, and for self-reading children ages 6-12.??????????????????Chris Huang, ???????????????????????????????????????????American Born Taiwanese, ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????ABC, ?ABT, ?????????????????????8-12???5-7??????3-5????

Journey Through the White Terror
Journey Through the White Terror

Author: Kang-i Sun Chang

Publisher: 國立臺灣大學出版中心

Published: 2013-02-25

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9789860056990

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Kang-i Sun Chang is Malcolm G. Chace ’56 Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University. In her memoir, Journey Through the White Terror, she tells the powerful story of her father Paul Sun (1919-2007). Along with numerous others, Sun was imprisoned more than 60 years ago during the “White Terror”, the decade following the withdrawal of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government from Mainland China to Taiwan in mid-December 1949. During this time, the Nationalist government implemented a policy of “better to kill ten thousand by mistake than to set one free by oversight,” and as a result, many innocent civilians such as the author’s father became victims of ferocious searches and persecutions. At the time of her father’s arrest, Prof. Chang was not quite six years old; when her father returned home, she was almost sixteen. Having witnessed the injustice of her father’s imprisonment and the freedom their family later enjoyed in America, she felt compelled to write this story. Prof. Chang’s account of how the family survived the White Terror makes her book one of the most intense and thrilling works on the subject. But the book is also about soul-searching and the healing of a childhood trauma. It is a true story about the triumph of the human spirit in the face of adversity. Love and religion in such circumstances prove to be the ultimate deliverance. All this is described in considerable detail in this extraordinary memoir.

Around the World in 80 Ways
Around the World in 80 Ways

Author: Stephen Webb

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-03-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 3031024400

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Around the World in 80 Ways offers a (sometimes opinionated) discussion of 80 data-driven maps of our planet. Taken together, the maps tell a story about the physical world; about the impact our species is having on the world; and about how people live in the world – or at least how we lived immediately before the emergence of Covid-19. The maps lie. All maps lie. But the origins of the deceptions are explained, the data sources are signposted and referenced, and the readers are shown how to create their own maps using freely available software. The reader is thus armed with the tools needed to explore local, national or world data – on topics ranging from science to society; environment to entertainment; wealth to wellbeing – a valuable skill in an age when certain politicians are happy to refer to “alternative facts” and media outlets deliver data visualizations that sometimes mislead as much as inform.

The Minor Arts of Daily Life
The Minor Arts of Daily Life

Author: David K. Jordan

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2004-03-31

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0824864867

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The Minor Arts of Daily Life is an account of the many ways in which contemporary Taiwanese approach their ordinary existence and activities. It presents a wide range of aspects of day-to-day living to convey something of the world as experienced by the Taiwanese themselves. Contributors: Alice Chu, Chien-Juh Gu, David K. Jordan, Paul R. Katz, Chin-Ju Lin, Andrew D. Morris, Marc L. Moskowitz, Scott Simon, Shuenn-Der Yu.

Making Money
Making Money

Author: Gary G. Hamilton

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2017-12-12

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1503604454

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Beginning in the 1950s, Taiwan rapidly industrialized, becoming a tributary to an increasingly "borderless" East Asian economy. And though President Trump has called for the end of "American carnage"—the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs—domestic retailers and merchandisers still willingly ship production overseas, primarily to Taiwan. In this book, Gary G. Hamilton and Cheng-shu Kao show how Taiwanese businesspeople have played a tremendous, unsung role in their nation's continuing ascent. From prominent names like Pou Chen and Hon Hai to the owners of small and midsize firms, Taiwan's contract manufacturers have become the world's most sophisticated suppliers of consumer products the world over. Drawing on over 30 years of research and more than 800 interviews, Hamilton and Kao tell these industrialists' stories. The picture that emerges is one of agile neo-capitalists, caught in the flux of a rapidly changing landscape, who tirelessly endeavor to profit on it. Making Money reveals its subjects to be at once producers of economic globalization and its byproducts. While the future of Taiwanese business is uncertain, the durability of demand-led capitalism is not.

Taiwan's Environmental Struggle
Taiwan's Environmental Struggle

Author: Jack Williams

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-02-25

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1134062834

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This book examines the causes of Taiwan's environmental predicament, engaging in Taiwan's unique geological, geographical, demographical, political, industrial, historical and economic circumstances with a view to what can be done to improve Taiwan's environmental future.

Modernization of Asian Theatres
Modernization of Asian Theatres

Author: Yasushi Nagata

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-05-13

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9811360464

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This volume focuses on the theatre history of Asian countries, and discusses the specific context of theatre modernization in Asia. While Asian theatre is one of the primary interests within theatre scholarship in the world today, knowledge of Asian theatre history is very limited and often surprisingly incorrect. Therefore, this volume addresses a major gap in contemporary theatre studies. The volume discusses the conflict between tradition and modernity in theatre, suggesting that the problems of modernity are closely related to the idea of tradition. Although Asian countries preserved the traditional form and values of their respective theatres, they had to also confront the newly introduced values or mechanisms of European modernity. Several papers in this volume therefore provide critical surveys of the history of theatre modernization in Asian countries or regions—Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India Malaysia, Singapore, and Uyghur. Other papers focus on specific case studies of the history of modernization, discussing contemporary Taiwanese performances, translations of modern French comedy into Chinese, the modernization of Chinese Xiqu, modern Okinawan plays, Malaysian traditional performances, Korean national theatre, and Japanese plays during World War II. Renowned academics and theatre critics have contributed to this volume, making it a valuable resource for researchers and students of theatre studies, literature, and cultural studies.

Money Machine
Money Machine

Author: Weijian Shan

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2023-02-07

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1394161204

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An extraordinary tale of an American firm’s astounding success in China In Money Machine: A Trailblazing American Venture in China, Weijian Shan delivers a compelling account of one of the most significant deals in private equity history: the first and only foreign acquisition of control of a Chinese national bank. Money Machine is the fascinating inside story of the transaction as told by the man who led it, from the intrigues of dealmaking to the complex and uncharted process of securing control by a foreign investor of a Chinese nationwide financial institution, a feat that had never before been attempted, nor has it been repeated. Shan also describes the astonishingly successful turnaround of the institution under the control of the American firm: the clash of cultures, the growth to strength and profitability, and ultimately, the extraordinarily profitable exit from the investment. In the process, he reveals new insights into how finance operates in China’s capital system and how private equity firms can add real value to companies. Readers will also find: A peek behind the curtain of a process usually shrouded in secrecy: private equity dealmaking and moneymaking The complex negotiations between American private equity executives and Chinese regulators to implement a series of unprecedented changes The riveting details of the challenges that had to be overcome to return the bank to growth and profitability An exceptional firsthand account of truly singular deal-making and money-making, Money Machine will be of interest to investment bankers, investors, financial analysts and anyone who appreciates a suspenseful, true-life story.

Making Money
Making Money

Author: Gary G. Hamilton

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780804792196

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Thirty years of research. Over 800 interviews. One untold story. Today, Taiwan is part of the increasingly "borderless" East Asian economy. But, in the 1950s, it was just beginning to industrialize. Making Money is the tale of the manufacturing demand generated in the West and the Taiwanese businesspeople who stepped up to fill it.