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Casino

Introduction
Cheng-Ping Cheng (Associate Professor, Department of Finance, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology)

Special Issue Article
1. The Cost and Benefit of Developing Integrated Resort and Gaming Industry in Matsu
Jiann-Chyuan Wang (Research Fellow and Vice President, Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research)
Ching-Pin Fu (Senior Researcher, Industrial Economics & Knowledge Center, Industrial Technology Research Institute)
Tsung-Che Wei (Associate Research Fellow, The Third Research Division, Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research)

2. The Arguments and Facts Against “Legalizing Casino Gambling in Designated Tourism Districts”
Chih-Kuei Yeh (Professor, Department of Tourism, Recreation and Leisure Studies, National Dong Hwa University)
I-Yin Yen (Corresponding author) (Assistant Professor, Department of Leisure Management, I-Shou University)

3. David Versus Goliath: A Comparison on the Mobilization of Supporters and Opponents in the 2009 Penghu Casino Referendum
I-Lun Tsai (Associate Professor, General Education Center, National Penghu University of Science and Technology)

4. Discuss Decriminalization of Gambling in the Social Change Perspective
Chia-Hua Wu (Ph.D. Student, College of Law, National Taiwan University; Judge, Taiwan Taipei District Court)

Policy Review
5. Offering a Developing Opportunity to Matsu
Suei-Sheng Yang (Doctor, Bureau of Health & Welfare; Pre-County Magistrate, Lienchiang County)

6. Inspecting Matsu’s Referendum on Setting Casino
Tsung-Hsun Ho (Convener, Alliance Against the Legalization of Gambling)

7. The Symposium on Taiwan’s Casino Industry
Chien-Feng Wei et. al.

Research Article
8. Levinas’ Criticism on Heidegger’s Ontology, from the Disparity of Dying and Death to Ethic: An Example on Being and Time
Wan-I Yang (Associate Professor, Institute of Philosophy, National Sun Yat-sen University)

9. Democracy, Equality, and Dialogue: The Ideal and Practice of Liberal Arts Education
Yu-Cheng Liu (Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Sociology, Nanhua University)


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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)


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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)


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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)



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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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