The Indigenous Dynamic in Taiwan's Postwar Development: The Religious and Historical Roots of Entrepreneurship (Taiwan in the Modern World)

Using Taiwan's third largest export industry - shoe manufacturing - as a case study, this work contends that economic development can be tied to Taiwan's own cultural history as well as to the influx of foreign capital or the initiatives of the state government. TAIWAN IN THE MODERN WORLD 3 T A I W A N I N T H E M O D E R N W O R L D 4 Contents 8 List 10 Preface 14 Introduction 18 1 B e y o n d t h e P a l e 28 Fuzhou Fuzhou Fuzhou 31 2 F r a g r a n t R i n g s 46 . . . . 55 3 T h e V i s i b l e H a n d 68 5 Clicking, Closing, and Making 118 6 Local Heroes 150 7 Every Living Room a Factory 172 8 Inscribing Capitalism 194 Bibliography 216 ---. 218 . --- 227 ---. 228 Index 230 Religious and Historical Roots of Entrepreneurship