Why Taiwan: Anthropological Perspectives

This book considers why Taiwan matters independent of the China-centric paradigm by both examining anthropological research on Taiwan as well as how to study Taiwan anthropologically, re-asserting the ontological status of Taiwan as a legitimate object of scholarly inquiry.

Shuenn-der Yu is a research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Anru Lee is Professor of Anthropology and Global Asian Studies at John Jay College, the City University of New York, USA.