Has taught in Hong Kong, Macau, and Portugal and has written extensively on mainland China, Japan, Taiwan, Macau, and Hong Kong. His articles has appeared in Annals of the Association of American Geographers, The China Quarterly, and Land Use Policy as well as other journals. Fluent in Chinese and Japanese as well as able to communicate in French and Portuguese, he is the author of Macau (Oxford: Clio Press, 1989) and Patterns of China''s Lost Harmony: A Survey of the Country''s Environmental Degradation and Protection (London: Routledge, June 1994). Currently he is working on environmental problems in China and transition issues in Macau.
Notes on contributors; Map; Taiwan in the twentieth century: an
introduction: 1. Aspects of the Taiwanese landscape in the twentieth
century Richard Louis Edmonds; 2. Transforming Taiwan's economic structure
in the twentieth century Cheng Tun-jen; 3. Taiwan in the twentieth century:
model or victim? Development problems in a small Asian economy Christopher
Howe; 4. Taiwan's social changes in the patterns of social solidarity in
the twentieth century Dung-sheng Chen; 5. Constructing a native
consciousness: Taiwan literature in the twentieth century Angelina Chun-chu
Yee; 6. Political development in twentieth-century Taiwan: state-building,
regime transformation and the construction of national identity Yun-han Chu
and Jih-wen Lin; 7. Taiwan in Japan's security considerations Soeya
Yoshihide; 8. An uncertain relationship: the United States, Taiwan and the
Taiwan Relations Act Steven M. Goldstein and Randall Schriver; 9. Taiwan
and South-East Asia: the limits to pragmatic diplomacy Michael Leifer;
Index; Errata.
