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Taiwan /

Provides an overview of the geography, history, government, lifestyle, language, art, and food of Taiwan, exploring its customs and current issues.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ryan, Micheala
Other Authors: Neo, Melvin
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Milwaukee, WI : Gareth Stevens Pub., 2003.
Series:Countries of the world (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Subjects:
Taiwan > Juvenile literature.
Taiwan.
Table of Contents:
  • Overview of Taiwan: Geography
  • History
  • Government and the economy
  • People and lifestyle
  • Arts
  • Leisure and festivals
  • Food
  • Closer took at Taiwan: Aborigines and Hakkas
  • Air pollution
  • Chaing Kai-Shek
  • Early European contact
  • Electronics industry
  • Feng Shui
  • Lunar new year festival
  • Opera performances
  • Penghu island
  • Puppetry
  • Taijiquan
  • Tainan
  • Tainawnese temples
  • Tea drinking
  • Typhoons
  • Relations with North America: Full-color map
  • Black-and-whit reproducible map
  • Taiwan at a glance
  • Glossary
  • Books, video, Web sites
  • Index.