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"The individual lives presented here range across time and social strata, presenting the experiences of people from a variety of professions, ethnicities, ages, genders, and political alliances. Configurations of place, time, ethnicity, and alliances are complex, as in the story of an Indigenous man drafted into the Japanese military to fight in the Pacific Islands during World War II, and that of a Taiwanese pop star drawn into political conflict between Taiwan and China. The tales' attention to the layered, complex, and interwoven fabric of colonialism allows us to consider the degree to which Taiwan has moved into a post-colonial narrative"--

Introduction -- Chapter 1. The next wave of climate refugees? Building a clear narrative concerning levels of understanding and agency in communities across the Pacific who are most at risk from the effects of the climate emergency -- Chapter 2. Sustainable Development from Unsustainable Climate: Sustainable Development Goals and the Pacific Small Island Developing States -- Chapter 3. New Zealand's Political Responses to Climate Change and Migration in the Pacific: A Perspective from the South -- Chapter 4. Agency and Action: Gender Inclusion in Planning for Climate Change Induced Human Mobility in Fiji -- Chapter 5. Assertion of Indigenous identity in the face of climate change: The works of two millennial Paiwan authors -- Chapter 6. Climate Change, Humility and Resilience: Analyzing a Myth of the Bunun in Taiwan -- Chapter 7. North American Native Literature and Environment: Perspectives on the Native Challenges and Dispossession -- Chapter 8. Future Impacts of Climate Change on the Lives and Livelihoods of Indo-Fijians -- Chapter 9. Exploring Australia and New Zealand's Climate Policies: Similarities and Differences.

"On 19 April 1895, British Consul Lionel Charles Hopkins, at the northern port of Tamsui, was summoned by Tang Jingsong, the governor of Taiwan, to his yamen in the western district of Taipei. Shortly after his arrival, Hopkins was handed a petition. Signed by a number of Taiwanese 'notables', the document appealed to the British government to incorporate the island into a protectorate in the wake of an impending Japanese invasion. The British declined. This book addresses the interconnectivity of these two communities, by focusing on the market town of Dadaocheng in northern Taiwan. It seeks to contextualise and examine the establishment of a 'settler society' as well as the creation of a sojourning British community, showing how they became a precursor of modernity and 'middle classism' there. By uncovering who the signatories of the petition were and what their motivation was to call upon the British consulate to bring the island under its protection, it brings into focus a remarkable period of transition not only for the history of Taiwan but also for the modern history of China. Using 1895 as a year of enquiry, it ultimately challenges the current orthodoxy that modernity in Taiwan was simply a by-product of the Japanese colonial period. As a social and transnational history of the events that took place in Taiwan during 1895, this book will be useful for students of East Asian Studies, Modern Chinese Studies and Asian History."--Provided by publisher

In Assessing the Landscape of Taiwan and Korean Studies in Comparison , the chapters offer a reflection on the state of the field of Taiwan and Korea Studies. For the editors, the volume's purpose was to identify not just their similarities, but also a reflection on their differences. Both have national identities formed in a colonial period. The surrender of Japan in 1945 ignited the light of independence for Korea, but this would be ideologically split within five years. For Taiwan, that end forced it into a born-again form of nationalism with the arrival of the Chinese Nationalists. Taiwan and South Korea's economic development illustrate a progressive transition and key to understanding this is the relationship between 'modernization' and 'democracy'. By looking at Korea and Taiwan, the chapters in the volume broaden an understanding of the interconnectivity of the region