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Professor Robert Putnam's earlier book, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000), is brilliant. He argued that the ways Americans increasingly distanced themselves from community involvement over the past few decades - including decreased voter turnout, attendance at public meetings, service on committees, and work with political parties - has undermined the active civic engagement which a strong democracy requires from its citizens. I find his thesis convincing and relevant to so many democratic societies today.
Therefore, when I found out recently that Putnam published another book (with Shaylyn Romney Garrett) in 2020, The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again, I bought it immediately and learned a great deal. In this age of hyper polarisation, confrontation, and exploitation, citizens have become more and more disengaged from not only political institutions but also each other. This sense of isolation…
'The most important book in social science for many years' Paul Collier, TLS Books of the Year
The Upswing is Robert D. Putnam's brilliant analysis of economic, social, cultural and political trends from the Gilded Age to the present, showing how America went from an individualistic 'I' society to a more communitarian 'We' society and then back again, and how we can all learn from that experience.
In the late nineteenth century, America was highly individualistic, starkly unequal, fiercely polarised and deeply fragmented, just as it is today. However, as the twentieth century dawned, America became - slowly, unevenly, but…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
I love this book partly because I am one of the editors and it is a product of fun and passion over several years. The book originated from a screening tour of Taiwanese-language films (taiyupian) in the UK and Europe in 2020. The outbreak of Covid-19 pushed us to readjust our delivery, with many of our screening events forced online or in hybrid format. The timeframe of the screening schedules was thus postponed from the end of 2020 to early 2022. As the timeline of the project lengthened, new research on taiyupian was generated. I am both grateful and privileged to be able to work with many outstanding scholars to present this new volume that aims to mark a watershed moment in scholarship on Taiwanese-language cinema.
Taiwanese-language cinema is a vibrant, low-budget cinema produced in numerous genres ranging from melodramas, Taiwanese-language operas (gezaixi), martial arts and comedies to spy movies…
Taiwanese-Language Cinema: Rediscovered and Reconsidered presents diverse approaches to the vibrant commercial film industry known as Taiwanese-language cinema (taiyupian). After a long period of neglect, films are being restored and made available with subtitles.Taiwanese-language cinema was a cycle of over 1,000 dramatic feature films produced between the mid-50s and early 70s in the local Minnanhua Chinese language most commonly spoken on the island, also known as "Taiwanese" (taiyu). The rediscovery of Taiwanese-language cinema is stimulating new scholarship, both in Chinese in Taiwan and in other languages, which challenges our conventional understandings of Taiwanese film history and opens up new approaches…
