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ESL
books, Chinese Literature & Travel Guidebooks
ESL
books/materials
Travel
& Guidebooks/Reference Books/Travel Essays
(History, politics, etc.)
Bookstores/Online
Retailers (local & overseas)
Novels/Classics
(Taiwanese-authored)
Novels/Classics
(Chinese-authored)
Literature
on Chinese culture in general is widely available, but classic/modern
Taiwanese-specific literature is not as plentiful. Most Taiwanese-authored
books aren’t translated into English and thus haven’t
gained popularity with Western audiences.
Travel
& Guidebooks
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Art
of Crossing Cultures, The
Craig
Storti |
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Culture
Shock!: Taiwan
Chris & Ling Li Bates |
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Culture
Shock: Successful Living Abroad - A Wife's Guide
Robin
Pascoe |
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China
by Bike: Taiwan, Hong Kong, China’s East Coast
Roger Grigsby |
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Lonely
Planet Guide to Taiwan
Robert
Storey |
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Moving
Abroad: A Guide To International Living
Virginia
McKay |
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Moving:
The Challenge of Change
Margaret
Emerson and Catherine Cameron |
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Relocating
Spouse's Guide to Employment, The
Frances
Bastress |
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Taipei
Times Edition
Good photos/historical info. |
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Taiwan:
Insight Guide
APA
Publications
Excellent photos |
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Window
on Taiwan
Mark De Fraeye
Coffee-table book |
Reference
Books on Taiwan/China - History,
Politics & more...
Anthropology
of Taiwanese Society, The
Ahern
& Gates, editors
Stanford
Univ. Press, Stanford 1981 |
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Doing
Business in Taiwan
Cheng,
Jame
Cheng
Cheng Law Offices
Taipei,
1982 |
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Economic
Development of Taiwan, 1860-1970
Samuel
P.S. Ho
Yale
University Press, New Haven 1978 |
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Face
Off: China, the United States, and Taiwan’s Democratisation
John W Garver
China’s ‘missile diplomacy’ during ’95-’96
elections
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Far
From Formosa
Rev.
George Leslie Mackay
Fleming
H. Revell Co., New York, 1895 |
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Foreigners
in Formosa, 1841-74
Carrington,
George Williams.
Chinese
Material Center
San
Francisco, 1977 |
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Formosa
William
G. Goddard
China
Publishing Co, Taipei, 1958 |
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Formosa,
A Study in Chinese History
WIlliam
G. Goddard
Macmillan,
London, 1966 |
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Gods,
Ghosts and Ancestors: Folk Religion in a Taiwanese Village
University
of California Press, Berkeley, 1966 |
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Harmony
And Conflict
Richard Hartzell
Long-term expat
Good read for foreigners planning to live and work in
Taiwan |
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Island
China
Clough,
Ralph N.
Harvard
University Press, Cambridge, 1978 |
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Island
of Formosa, Past and Present, The
James
W Davidson
Macmillan,
London, 1903 |
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Leadership
and Values: The Organisation of Large-Scale Taiwanese
Enterprises
Robert
H. Silin
Harvard
University Press, Cambridge 1976 |
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Lords
of the Rim
Sterling Seagrave
Insight into ‘Overseas Chinese’ |
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Republic
of China: A Reference Book
United
Pacific International, Taipei 1983 |
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Soong
Dynasty, The
Sterling Seagrave
Describes why the KMT left the mainland |
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Taiwan:
A Beautiful Island
Yu
Juchi, editor
TTV
Culture Enterprise
Taipei,
1981 |
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Taiwan,
An Economic and Social Geography
Cheng,
Jame
Cheng
Cheng Law Offices
Taipei,
1982 |
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Taiwan
in China's Foreign Relations, 1836-74
Sophia
Yu-fe Yen
Shoe
String Press, Hamden Connecticut, 1965 |
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Taiwan:
Nation-State or Province?
John Franklin Copper
2nd edition |
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Wine
for the Gods, An Account of the Religious Traditions
of Taiwan
Henry
Wei and Suzanne Countanceau
Cheng
Wen Publishing Co, Taipei 1976 |
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When
China Ruled the Seas - The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon
Throne, 1405-33
Louise
Levathes
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Women
and the Family in Rural Taiwan
Margery
Wolf
Stanford
University Press
Stanford,
1972 |
Foreigner-authored
Novels/Travel Essays on Taiwan & China
An
Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa
(1705)
George
Psalmanazar (1679? - 1763)
Psalmanazar, a European, succeeded for several years
in passing himself off as a native of Taiwan, a place
he had never visited and knew next to nothing about. |
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Black-Bearded
Barbarian, The
(1912)
Marian
Keith (1876 - 1961)
Biography of George Mackay (1844-1901), an influential
Presbyterian missionary in northern Taiwan |
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| China
and the Manchus (1912) |
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| Chinese
Boy and Girl, The (1901) |
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| Chinese
Sketches (1876) |
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| Civilization
of China, The (1911) |
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Court
Life in China (1909)
Isaac
Taylor Headland (1859 - 1942)
Chinese children's games, rhymes, and stories. |
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Formosa
Betrayed (1965)
George
F. Kerr (1911 - )
A damning indictment of the KMT administration in Taiwan
in the years immediately following World War II. |
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Formosan
Odyssey
John
Ross (1968 - )
John Ross was born to British parents in New Zealand
in 1968. Since studying Geography at Auckland University
he has worked as a photo-journalist and teacher, and
travelled extensively in Burma, Papua New Guinea, South
America, and Mongolia. He has lived in Taiwan for six
years. |
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Herbert
A. Giles (1845 - 1935)
Giles is best known for his work on the Wade-Giles system
for romanizing Mandarin, a revision of an earlier system
by Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-95), whom he succeeded
as professor of Chinese at Cambridge.
Giles served as a British consular official in various
parts of China from 1867-92. He was first posted to in
Taiwan 1867. He also served as British Consul at Tamsui
(Tanshui/Danshui) from 1885-87. |
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Keeping
Up With the War God (2001)
Steven Crook
"A blend of travel narrative and commentary, peppered
with asides ranging from the caustic to the laudatory,
Keeping Up With the War God is an exploration of Taiwan
by a long-term resident who has often loved, and sometimes
loathed, the island -- but never felt bored there." |
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New
Forces in Old China
(1904)
Arthur
Judson Brown (1856 - 1963) |
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| Religions
of Ancient China (1905) |
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Travels,
The (c.1330)
Odoric
of Pordenone (1265? - 1331)
Odoric left Venice c.1317. He traveled through Asia
Minor, Persia, India, and China. He was beatified in
1755. I have included only part of his text, but will
add more if enough people let me know they're interested. |
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Travels
of Sir John Mandeville, The (c. 1357)
Sir
John Mandeville
This was a tremendously popular work in its day, much
more so than the Travels of Marco Polo. The author,
however, never went to China; and most of the book is
a fanciful plagiarism of Odoric and others. Thus, most
of it is bullshit -- but extremely interesting and influential
bullshit. |
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