Cross-Currents of Social Theorizing of Contemporary Taiwan

Ananta Kumar Giri is a Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India.   Su-Chen Wu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures of Fo Guang University, Taiwan.

Cross-Currents of Social Theorizing of Contemporary Taiwan: An Introduction and an Invitation.- Part I. Cross-Currents of Social Theorizing of Contemporary Taiwan: Classical Roots and Contemporary Reconstructions.- Chapter 1. A Scientific Interpretation of Confucian Theorizing on Self-cultivation.- Chapter 2. From Self to Self Nature: Buddhist Self-Enlightenment Theory.- Chapter 3. Wisdom Consultation: Application of Yang-ming’s Nousology in Indigenous Psychological Consultation.- Chapter 4. Constructing the Theoretical Basis of Chinese Indigenous Social Science.- Part II. Social Theorizing in Contemporary Taiwan: Glimpses from Some Contemporary Movements and Socio-Cultural Initiatives.- Chapter 5. The Social Transformation from Labor Movement to Political Movement - The Praxis of Committee for Action of Labor Legislation and People’s Democratic Political Movement.- Chapter 6.  Another World is Possible: Abandoning the Hegemony of Global Capitalism in The Sunflower Movement in Taiwan.- Chapter 7. Culture, Land Reclamation Movement and Property Relations: Reflections on the Language of Property in Indigenous Mapping Projects in Truku Society, Taiwan.- Chapter 8. Countering Prejudices with Uncanny Strangeness: Taiwanese Children’s Books about Southeast Asian Marriage Immigrants in Taiwan.- Chapter 9. Gastronomic Fusion and Flexible Culinary Citizenship of Southeast Asian Female Migrants in Taiwan’s Public TV Programs.- Part Three: Ethics and Other Issues of Cultural Creativity.- Chapter 10: An Inclusive Theory of Ethics Based on Chinese Culture: The Duality Model of Professional Ethics for Helpers.- Chapter 11. Through the Compound Eyes The Ethical Dynamics of Wu Ming-yi’s Materialistic Literary Vision in The Man with the Compound Eyes and The Stolen Bicycle.- Chapter 12. Affect and the Virtual: A Deleuzian Reading of a Taiwanese Film: Kano.- Chapter 13: Articulating Ecological Ethics and Politics of Life in Ming-Yi Wu’s The Land of Little Rain.- Chapter 14. Breathing Between: Making a Sensory Ethnographic Film on Freediving Spearfishing with the ‘Amis in Taiwan’.- Chapter 15. The Life Education of the Protect Life Relief Pictures in the Buddha Museum, Taiwan..- Chapter 16 The Combat and Compromise in Taiwanese Puppets as a Body without Organ: Samadhi Tang Creative Puppet Troupe as an Example.- Chapter Seventeen: Engaged Buddhism, The Six Pāramitās and Yuanmen’s Collective Social-Charity Practices.