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DEVELOPMENT AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE IN TAIWAN (1945-1995)
by Roger Mark Selya (University of Cincinnati, USA)
This book describes and analyzes the demographic changes that took place in Taiwan between 1945 and 1995. It uses an interdisciplinary methodology so that different approaches to demographic change can be compared and contrasted. It attempts to evaluate Taiwan's experience so that lessons for the Third World can be extracted. The content and presentation of the material are deliberately designed to replicate the 1954 work of Barclay, Demographic Change and Colonial Development in Taiwan. As such the book seeks to provide the reasons that economic development without demographic change took place under the Japanese while development with demographic change took place under the Chinese. The volume is richly illustrated with some 82 original maps and graphs.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Growth, Distribution, Composition, and
Structure
- Fertility
- Mortality, Morbidity, and Public Health
- Migration
- Population Policies
- Summary and Conclusions
Readership: Students and researchers in Asian studies, Chinese and
Taiwanese studies, demography, geography and planning.
“As he does throughout the book, Selya provides us with current thinking from a variety of viewpoints. This book is an exceptionally valuable resource for those with an interest in Taiwan's modern development.”
| Population and Development Review |
“This is a valuable and useful book. It is full of information and offers a thoughtful and reasonable survey of a broad literature on a range of demographic topics as well as a number of economic, political, social, and cultural issues related to Taiwan ... Chock full of data, generously illustrated, well documented, carefully written, and logically and critically argued, this volume belongs on the bookshelf of every scholar with a serious interest in East Asia, comparative demography, and development theory.”
| The Professional Geographer |
| 480pp |
Pub. date: Jun 2004 |
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