Taiwan

Wei-Ping Lin. Island Fantasia: Imagining Subjects on the Military Frontline between China and Taiwan. Taiwan Studies Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 250 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-316-51937-0; $24.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-00-901040-5; $20.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-00-902123-4.

Reviewed by Mark A. Dodge (University of Buffalo) Published on H-History-and-Theory (October, 2022) Commissioned by Andrew J. Kettler (University of California, Los Angeles)

David Cheng Chang. The Hijacked War: The Story of Chinese POWs in the Korean War. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. 238 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0460-5. 

Reviewed by Jean-Michel Turcotte (Chair of War Studies, University of Potsdam) Published on H-War (May, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Hiroko Matsuda. Liminality of the Japanese Empire: Border Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan. Perspectives on the Global Past Series. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2018. Illustrations, maps, tables. 220 pp. $68.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8248-6756-0. 

John J. Harney. Empire of Infields: Baseball in Taiwan and Cultural Identity, 1895-1968. Lincoln: Univeristy of Nebraska Press, 2019. 240 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8032-8682-5.

Reviewed by Paul Dunscomb (University of Alaska Anchorage) Published on H-Asia (February, 2020) Commissioned by Bradley C. Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University)

Reo Matsuzaki. Statebuilding by Imposition: Resistance and Control in Colonial Taiwan and the Philippines. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. 264 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-3483-0.

Reviewed by Amanda Hendrix-Komoto (Montana State University) Published on H-Diplo (May, 2020) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Arif Dirlik, Ping-Hui Liao, Ya-Chung Chuang, eds. Taiwan: The Land Colonialisms Made. Volume 45, issue 3 of boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 200 pp. $12.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-0357-1.

Stephen G. Craft. American Justice in Taiwan: The 1957 Riots and Cold War Foreign Policy. Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace Series. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016. 284 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-6635-3.

Reviewed by Michael Shiyung Liu (Academia Sinica) Published on H-Diplo (July, 2016) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach

Lisa Funnell. Warrior Women: Gender, Race, and the Transnational Chinese Action Star. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014. 294 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-5249-4; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4384-5248-7.

Reviewed by Amy Lee Published on H-Asia (April, 2015) Commissioned by Douglas Slaymaker

Chinese Warrior Women on the World Screen

Lu Hsiu-Lien, Ashley Esarey. My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman's Journey from Prison to Power. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014. 344 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-99364-5.

Reviewed by Madeline Hsu (University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Asia (October, 2014) Commissioned by Sumit Guha

A Taiwanese Woman Leader

James Carter. Heart of Buddha, Heart of China: The Life of Tanxu, a Twentieth-Century Monk. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. viii + 221 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-539885-4.

Reviewed by Justin Ritzinger (Oberlin College) Published on H-Buddhism (August, 2011) Commissioned by Dan Lusthaus