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Chinese Working-Class Lives: Getting by in Taiwan

Chinese Working-Class Lives: Getting by in Taiwan

Gates, Hill

Paperback

Series: Anthropology of Contemporary Issues

AnthropologyChinese HistoryPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 1501727907
ISBN13: 9781501727900
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Aug 15 2018
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Taiwan's working class has been shaped by Chinese tradition, by colonialism, and by rapid industrialization. This book defines that class, explores that history, and presents with sensitive honesty the life experiences of some of its women and men. Hill Gates first provides a solid and informative introduction to Taiwan's history, showing how mainland China, Japan, the convulsions of twentieth-century wars, and the East Asian economic expansion interacted in forming Taiwanese urban life. She introduces nine individuals from Taiwan's three major ethnic groups to tell the stories of their lives in their own words. The narrators include a fortuneteller, a woman laborer, and a retired air force mechanic. A former spirit medium and a janitor are among the others who speak.

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