{"product_id":"looking-through-taiwan-american-anthropologists-collusion-with-ethnic-domination-9780803220737","title":"Looking Through Taiwan: American Anthropologists' Collusion with Ethnic Domination","description":"Anthropologists have long sought to extricate their work from the policies and agendas of those who dominate--and often oppress--their native subjects. \u003ci\u003eLooking through Taiwan\u003c\/i\u003e is an uncompromising look at a troubling chapter in American anthropology that reveals what happens when anthropologists fail to make fundamental ethnic and political distinctions in their work. Keelung Hong and Stephen O. Murray examine how Taiwanese realities have been represented--and misrepresented--in American social science literature, especially anthropology, in the post-World War II period. They trace anthropologists' complicity in the domination of a Taiwanese majority by a Chinese minority and in its obfuscation of social realities. At the base of these distortions, the authors argue, were the mutual interests of the Republic of China's military government and American social scientists in mischaracterizing Taiwan as representative of traditional Chinese culture. American anthropologists, eager to study China but denied access by its communist government, turned instead to fieldwork on the Republic of China's society, which they incorrectly and disingenuously interpreted to reflect traditional Chinese society on the mainland. Anthropologists overlooked the cultural and historical differences between the island and the mainland and effectively legitimized the People's Republic of China's claim on Taiwan. \u003ci\u003eLooking through Taiwan\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful critique of American anthropology and a valuable reminder of the political and ethical implications of social science research and writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keelung Hong, Stephen O. Murray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803220737\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKeelung Hong is the CEO and chairman of Taiwan Liposome Company and the coauthor (with Stephen O. Murray) of \u003ci\u003eTaiwanese Culture, Taiwanese Society: A Critical Review of Social Science Research Done on Taiwan\u003c\/i\u003e. Stephen O. Murray is the director of El Instituto Obregón in San Francisco, California, and the author of \u003ci\u003eTheory Groups in the Study of Language in North America: A Social History\u003c\/i\u003e and many other books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40138417668211,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_d785e3c2-7e4b-4523-81e1-8d8736f54b6a.jpg?v=1654349327","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/looking-through-taiwan-american-anthropologists-collusion-with-ethnic-domination-9780803220737","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}