Modernization or Cultural Imperialism: A Critical Reading of Taiwan's National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study: 24 - Rilegato

Chen, Yun-shiuan (Viola)

 
9781433120299: Modernization or Cultural Imperialism: A Critical Reading of Taiwan's National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study: 24
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ISBN 10: 1433120291 ISBN 13: 9781433120299
Casa editrice: Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2013

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This book focuses on the development of Taiwan’s long-standing National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study between 1955 and 2000. The National Scholarship Program can be seen as Taiwan’s governmental pursuit of strategic modernization for national and social development. Strategic modernization does not necessarily imply a linear, progressive, and technological modernity; but should be viewed as an adjustable, flexible, and sustainable effort that transforms and assists a nation, like Taiwan, to adapt itself within its constrained and changing post-colonial condition. This view of strategic modernization is based upon an interrogation of the discourses surrounding the scholarship program, using post-colonial theories as a referential framework. The research includes an ethnographic analysis of discourse, investigating the program from two perspectives: the researcher’s critical discourse analysis of historical texts, and the narratives provided by program stakeholders. The juxtaposition of these two discursive perspectives not only reveals different facets of the program, but more importantly, tracks the dynamic and constantly unfolding interwoven complex of political, economic and cultural threads that have rarely been considered together.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Yun-shiuan (Viola) Chen received her Ph.D. in educational policy studies at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. She is currently an assistant research fellow at Taiwan’s National Academy for Educational Research.

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Editore
Peter Lang Pub Inc
Data di pubblicazione
2013
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1433120291
ISBN 13 
9781433120299
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
2
Numero di pagine
198
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9781433120282: Modernization or Cultural Imperialism: A Critical Reading of Taiwan's National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study: 24

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ISBN 10:  1433120283 ISBN 13:  9781433120282
Casa editrice: Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2013
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