Basic Reading:

1.          Huang, Michael (1992). “The Rise of Social Movements and Civil Protests.” In Political Change in Taiwan. Ed. TJ Cheng & S Haggard. Boulder, Colorado, Lynne Reinner.

2.          Ho, Ming-sho (2006). “Neo-centrist Labour Policy in Practice: The DPP and Taiwanese Working Class.” In Dafydd Fell, Henning Kloeter and Chang Bi-yu (eds.) What has changed? Taiwan Before and After the Change in Ruling Parties. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz: pp. 129-146. Part 1    part2  

3.          Ho,Ming-sho (2005). ‘Weakened State and Social Movement: the Paradox of Taiwanese Environmental Politics after the Power Transition.” Journal of Contemporary China, 14, 43: pp.339-352.

4.          Ho, Ming-sho (2005). “Taiwan’s State and Social Movements Under the DPP Government, 2000-2004,” Journal of East Asian Studies, 5, 3: pp. 401-425.

5.          Teresa Wright (1999). ‘Student Mobilization in Taiwan: Civil Society and its Discontents,’ Asian Survey, 39, 6, pp.986-1008.

6.         Kim Sunhyuk. (2000). “Democratization and Environmentalism: South Korea and Taiwan in Comparative Perspective.” Journal of Asian and African Studies 35, no. 3:pp.287-303. (O) & (C)

7.          Tang Shui-yan and Tang Ching-ping (1999). “Democratization and the Environment: Entrepreneurial Politics and Interest Representation in Taiwan.” The China Quarterly, No. 158, pp.350-366. (O) & (C)

8.          Weng Hui-chen and Dafydd Fell, Women’s Movement in Taiwan, in In Dafydd Fell, Henning Kloeter and Chang Bi-yu (eds.) What has changed? Taiwan Before and After the Change in Ruling Parties. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz: pp. 129-146.

Discussion Questions:

1.          What were the main social movements to emerge after the lifting of martial law?

2.          How have the campaign methods of Taiwan’s principal social movements differed?

3.          How can we best explain the varying impact of the social movements?

What challenges do Taiwan’s social movements face today?