This chapter discusses the migration from the mainland in the early post-war period; this
supplied Taiwan with most of its highly educated people and formed a favorable initial …

Taiwan's postwar economic progress has clearly been exceptional. The evidence is
overwhelming that rapid educational development played an important role in the rapid …

Taiwan youth in the sixties were commonly referred to as the “silent generation.” As the
island entered the seventies, the turbulent international situation, the transformation of the …

Taiwan's education system had three features which were instrumental to its spectacular
economic success. First, it had an infrastructure already built up by 1950 for basic education …

During the past four decades Taiwan has undergone industrialization and urbanization
processes characterized by remarkable economic growth and educational expansion. Not …

Economists concerned with the problems of poor nations have become greatly interested in
the development experiences of several East Asian nations. Taiwan, South Korea and, of …

The explosive economic growth and rising prosperity of Taiwan is linked to the country's
system of vocational education. Paralleling Taiwan's rapid economic transformation has …

In recent years, a part of the Western academic community has explained the rapid postwar
rise of the economies of the East Asian countries by" Confucian traditions" and education as …

This book describes and analyzes the demographic changes that took place in Taiwan
between 1945 and 1995. It uses an interdisciplinary methodology so that different …

As Western modernity has achieved global proportions, the race for development in non-
Western countries feeds back and reinforces the compulsive attempt to" keep up," in a …