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Taiwan's green parties : alternative politics in Taiwan -- Frameworks and data for analysing Taiwan's green parties -- Beautiful accidents : the formation of Taiwan's green parties -- The impact of the green parties in Taiwan : elections, media and the international -- Who are the green parties? Leaders, candidates and supporters -- The GPT's first election in 1996 : Professor Kao catching missiles -- Almost breaking through in 1998 : is it OK to frequent sexual nightclubs? -- Understanding the GPT's quiet period : 1999-2005 -- Returning to elections between 2006 and 2009 : the wish of the Ladybird, Red-Green alliance and treetop protest -- The struggle to become a relevant party : the 2010 and 2012 campaigns -- Reforms and the local breakthroughs and setbacks of 2014 : unfinished progress -- The 2016 GPT SDP alliance's failed national breakthrough : the lunchboxes and teenage idol election -- A new model of local election campaigning in 2018 : winning or selling its soul? -- The Teng Hui-wen or Wang Hau-yu GPT campaigns in 2020 -- Conclusion: The aftermath, rebranding, returning to research questions and practical lessons.

In the spring of 2014, the Sunflower Movement's three-week occupation of the Legislative Yuan brought Taiwan back to international media attention. It was the culmination of a series of social movements that had been growing in strength since 2008 and have become even more salient since the spring of 2014. Social movements in Taiwan have emerged as a powerful new actor that needs to be understood alongside those players that have dominated the literature such as political parties, local factions, Taishang, China and the United States. This book offers readers an introduction to the development of these social movements in Taiwan by examining a number of important movement case studies that focus on the post 2008 period. The return of the Kuomintang (KMT) to power radically changed the political environment for Taiwan's civil society and so the book considers how social activists responded to this new political opportunity structure. The case chapters are based on extensive fieldwork and are written by authors from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and methodological approaches; in some cases authors combine being both academics and activists themselves. Together, the chapters focus on a number of core issues, providing the book with four key aims. Firstly, it investigates the roots of the movements and considers how to best explain their emergence. Secondly, it examines the development trajectories of these movements. Thirdly, it looks at the best way to explain their impact and development patterns, and finally it assesses their overall impact, questioning whether they can be regarded as successes or failures. Covering a unique range of social movement cases, the book will be of interest to students and researchers interested in Taiwanese society and politics, as well as social movements and civil society.

This comprehensive treatment of the smelting industry of Colorado, originally published in 1979, is now back in print with a new preface by the author. Packed with fascinating statistics and mining data, Ores to Metals details the people, technologies, and business decisions that have shaped the smelting industry in the Rockies. Although mining holds more of the glamour for those in and interested in the minerals industry, smelters have continuously played a critical role in the industry's evolution since their introduction in Colorado in the 1860s. At that time, miners desperately needed ne