Democracy in Contemporary Taiwan

Introduction

Chia-Yin Chang (Professor, Department of Law, Shih Hsin University)

Special Issue Article

1. Taiwan’s Death Penalty in the Local-Global Dynamics

Chia-Wen Lee (Professor, Department of Law, National Cheng Kung University)

2. Parrhēsia and Democracy, Michel Foucault’s Last Lesson

Yuan-Horng Chu (Professor, Graduate Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Chiao-Tung University)

3. Differential Governance and Democratic Participation: An Analysis of Trade Adjustment Assistance Employment Policies in Response to Trade Liberalization in Taiwan

Chien-Hung Lee (Associate Professor, Department of Labor Relations, Chinese Culture University)

4. From National Identity to Social Class: Democratic Progressive Party’s Shifting Discourse about Cross-Strait Trade Issues

Dee Wu (B.S. Degree, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University)

5. A Forum on Taiwan’s Democracy: Does Taiwan’s Democracy face a Crisis?

Chien-Feng Wei et. al.

Research Article

6. Practices of Citizen Journalism from the Perspective of Communication Empowerment: A Case Study on PeoPo and Citizen Reporters in Taiwan

Chu-Jie Chen (Associate Research Professor, School of Communication and Design, Sun Yat-sen University)

Research Note

7. How Communities were Studied? Three Approaches to Community Studies in Taiwan in the 1960s and the 1970s

Jia-Shin Tsai (Ph.D Student, Institute of Sociology, National Tsing Hua University)

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Modern Japanese Studies

Introduction

Kun-Chiang Chang (Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, National Taiwan Normal University)

Special Issue Article

1. How Modern Japan Conceptualizes and Constructs Narratives of Women from Warrior Families

Kun-Chiang Chang (Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, National Taiwan Normal University)

2. Bushido and Modern Age

Chin-Ping Liao (Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University)

3. A Study on the Samurai Spirit of Saka no Ue no Kumo: Focus on Comparing with Bushido in Meiji Period

Shiaw-Hua Chien (Professor and Chairman, Department of Applied Japanese, Chung Hua University)

4. Problems about Education on Chinese in Modern Japan and Confucian Classics’ Retreat: Through Integrations of Textbooks of Chinese in Meiji Period

Pei-Yi Chin (Professor, Department of Chinese, National Taiwan Normal University)

5. The Origin of Sun Yat-sen’s “Equalization of Land Rights” Policy: The Influences from the Euro-American Theories and the Active Interactions with Japanese Comrades

Tzu-Chin Huang (Research Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica)

6. The Exotic Moon Shining Over Nationalism: a Close Reading of the Komin Literature in the Pan East Asian War Period by Fujii Shozo and Some Theoretical Reflections on Literary and Cultural History

Yun-Hong Lin (Ph. D., Department of Chinese and Literature, National Dong Hwa University)

Research Article

7. From “Minshi” to “Shuishi”: On the Origin of Liang Qichao’s “Sleeping Lion” Discourse

Jui-sung Yang (Associate Professor, Department of History, National Chengchi University)

Emotion-Intention Criticism and Chinese Literature Study

Introduction

Hsing-Chien Che (Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Chengchi University)

Invited Article

1. The Sensuscommunis of Being and the Metaphorical Expression of Political-Bildung Ideology: Exploring Emotion-Intention Criticism and the Effectiveness of Reflexivity Interpretation of Chinese Classical Literature

Kun-Yang Yen (Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, Tamkang University)

Special Issue Article

2. From Emotion-Intention Criticism to Hermeneutics of Authorial Intention

Hsing-Chien Che (Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Chengchi University)

3. A Discussion about Emotion-Intention Criticism

Hsin-Yang Lai (Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Taipei University)

4. A Study on the Poetic Topic of the Dialectical Relationship between Wen and Qing by the Revivalist in Ming Dynasty

Ying-Chieh Chen (Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Chengchi University)

5. An Introductory Study of Yao Wenxie’s Emotion-Intention Criticism in Anthology of Changgu’s Poems

Pei-Chi Chen (Adjunct Assistant Professor, Center for General Education, Providence University)

Research Article

6. Anxiety of Vocalization and Writing Strategies of China’s Contemporary Poetic History

Tah-Wei Chan (Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Taipei University)

Religious Studies

Introduction

Pen-Hsuan Lin (Professor and Chairman, Department of Cultural Tourism, National United University)

Special Issue Article

1. The Developmental Contexts of the Phenomenon on Direct Communication with Supernatural Spirits: An Exploration of Native Spiritual Movement in Contemporary Taiwan

Mei-Jung Lin (Professor, Institute of Religion and Humanity, Tzu-chi University)

Fong-Ming Lee (Ph. D., Department of Ethnology, National Cheng-Chi University)

2. In and Out Religion: the Spiritual Practices of Taiwan’s New Agers

Chia-Luen Chen (Associate Professor, College of General Education, Hungkuang University)

3. The Review of “Conditions for Registration of the Temple” from the Religious Group Autonomy

Yue-Dian Hsu (Distinguished Professor, Dean of College of Social Sciences, Department of Law, National Cheng Kung University)

Wen-Han Tsai (Master, Department of Law, National Cheng Kung University)

Research Article

4. Populism in Contemporary Taiwan: Forming Images of ‘The People’ Against ‘Others’

Yu-Ting Huang (Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, Tunghai University)

Ruey-Ming Tsay (Distinguished Professor and Vice President, Department of Sociology, Tunghai University)

5. On Common Sense and Imagination in Historiographical Research: A Case Study of Decoding Two Primary Sources in the Compiling History of the Comprehensive Mirror

Chia-Fu Sung (Assistant Professor, Department of History, National Taiwan University)

Research Note

6. Affect, Fieldwork Techniques, Being, and Anthropological Knowledge

Weining Cheng (Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica)

Citizens’ Movements in Taiwan

Introduction

Ming-Sho Ho (Professor, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University)

Special Issue Article

1. From Ethnic Justice to Environmental Discourse: Frame Transformation of the Tao Anti-nuclear Waste Movement

Shuling Huang (Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Technology, National Chiao Tung University)

2. Campaign for Public Television after Taiwan’ Second Power Transfer in 2008

Lihyun Lin (Professor, Graduate Institute of Journalism, National Taiwan University)

3. Disabled Citizens’ Movement: Glocalization of Rights Discourse and Social Model in Taiwan

Heng-Hao Chang (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, National Taipei University)

4. The End of Stigma? The Challenge to Epilepsy Group

Jui-Hsien Wang (Associate Professor, Department of Education, National Pingtung University)

5. Environmental Protests under the Ma Ying-Jeou Government (2008-2012): A Protest Event Analysis

Chun-Hao Huang (Ph.D. Student, Department of Sociology, Tunghai University)

Ming-Sho Ho (Professor, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University)

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Research Article

1. Montesquieu and a Moderate Modernity

Nan Zhou (Ph.D. Student, Department of History, Queen’s University, Canada)

2. Resolution and Composition: Weber’s Latent but Prominent View on Technology and Modernity

Hung-Hui Chang (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, National Dong Hwa University)

3. The Self’s Relations with Others in Foucault’s Ethics

Chiun-Zeng Lee (Associate Professor, Department of Government and Law, National University of Kaohsiung)

4. On the Turn in the Development of the Legal Philosophy of Jürgen Habermas and the Adequency for the Relationship between Moral and Law

Li Lin (Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of European Studies, Tamkang University)

Research Note

5. Social Stratification and the Social Mobility: When Zhong Guo Jin Shi Zong Jiao Lun Li Yu Shang Ren Jing Shen of Yü Y-S Meets Weberian Point of View

Cheng Lin (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Fu Guang University)

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Abstraction Vol.52, No.4

Governance Research. Part II. The Multiplicity

Introduction

Yi-Tung Chang (Assistant Professor, Department of Social Development, National Pingtung University)

Special Issue Article

1. The Evolution of Taiwan’s Environmental Governance after World War II: An Ecological Modernization Approach

Hsin-Hsun Huang (Post-Doctor Research Fellow, Department of Land Economics, National Chengchi University)

Shih-Jung Hsu (Professor, Department of Land Economics, National Chengchi University)

2. The Endogenous Conflicts and Political Negotiation in Cultural Governance

Chih-Hung Wang (Professor, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning,

National Taiwan University)

3. Risk Governance of Techno-science Issues in Democratization of Science: Discussing Technocratic Risk Communication, Public Perception on Risk and Public Mobilization in the Case of Kuokuang Petrochemical Development Projects

Ming-Ying Lee (Associate Professor, Department of Mass Communication, Providence University)

4. Thoughts on “Arm’s-Length”: Governance and Accountability of Quasi-Governmental Organizations in Taiwan

Tien-Shen Li (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University)

Keng-Ming Hsu (Department of Public Administration and Management, National University of Tainan)

Research Note

6. Taiwan’s Response to the Global Governance of Gender Violence: To Explore the Aspects of Marital Violence Intervention

Joh-Jong Huang (Director, Department of Family Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital)

Ko-Li Chang (Associate Professor, College of Humanity and Administration, Fooyin University)

Vincent Shieh (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Gender Education, National Normal University)

  

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