Session I: From Deerskins to Semiconductors
Week 1, 9/1 (LAN, Shichi Mike)
Introduction: Time and Space of Taiwan
- Tonio Andrade, How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century (Columbia University Press, 2009)
- Robert Eskildsen, Transforming Empire in Japan and East Asia: The Taiwan Expedition and the Birth of Japanese Imperialism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
- Evan Dawley, Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s-1950s (Harvard University Asia Center, 2019)
Week 2, 9/8 (Invited speaker: Holroyd, Ryan)
An Island Entrepôt: Taiwan’s Role in Asian Maritime Trade under the Dutch and Zheng, 1624 – 1683
- Tonio Andrade, “The Rise and Fall of Dutch Taiwan, 1624-1662: Cooperative Colonization and the Statist Model of European Expansion,” Journal of World History 17, no. 4 (2006): 429-450.
- Adam Clulow, The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), chap. 6.
- Cheng Wei-chung, War, Trade and Piracy in the China Seas, 1622-1683 (Leiden: Brill, 2013), chaps. 13-14.
Week 3, 9/15 (Invited speaker: Holroyd)
Sugar, Rice, and Unrest: Taiwan as a Turbulent Settler Colony during the High Qing, 1683 – 1788
- Emma Jinhau Teng, Taiwan’s Imagined Geography Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004), chap. 1.
- Ng Chin-keong, Trade and Society: The Amoy Network on the China Coast, 1683-1735 (Singapore: NUS Press, 2015), chap. 3.
- David Ownby, Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China: The Formation of a Tradition (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996), chaps. 2-3.
Week 4, 9/22 (Invited speaker: Holroyd)
Camphor, Coal, and Incursions: The Reluctant Beginnings of Taiwan’s Entanglement with the Global Economy, 1788 – 1860
- Chen Chiukan, “From Landlords to Local Strongmen: The Transformation of Local Elites in Mid-Ch’ing Taiwan 1780-1862,” in Taiwan: A New History, ed. Murray A. Rubinstein (London: Routledge, 2015).
- Leonard H. D. Gordon, Confrontation Over Taiwan: Nineteenth-Century China and the Powers (Lanham: Rowman & Littledfield, 2009), chap. 2.
- Lin Yu-ju, “The Trade System of Port Cities in Mid-Nineteenth Century Taiwan,” in Crossroads: Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World 4 (2011): 137-168.
Week 5, 9/29 (Invited speaker: Chen, Chia-Hao)
Was Japan the Best “Colonial Master”? Examining Taiwan’s Infrastructure from the pre-war to the postwar period
- Landes, David S. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998.
- Chang, Han-Yu and Ramon Myers. “Japanese Colonial Development Policy in Taiwan, 1895-1906.” Journal of Asian Studies 22, no. 4 (August 1963): 433-450.
- Ho, Samuel. Economic Development of Taiwan 1860-1970. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.
Week 6, 10/6 Enjoy the Moon (and mooncakes)
Week 7, 10/13 (Invited speaker: Chen, Chia-Hao)
The Making of Transport Dynasties: Colonial Legacies in Taiwan’s Century-Old Bus Companies and Comparison with Korea
- Knapp, Ronald G. “Push Car Railways and Taiwan’s Development.” In China’s Island Frontier: Studies in the Historical Geography of Taiwan, edited by Ronald G. Knapp, 171–190. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1980.
Week 8, 10/20 (Invited speaker: Chen, Chia-Hao)
The Driving Force Behind the Miracle of the Taiwanese Economy: Taiwan’s Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Their Role in Global Market
- Hsiao, Frank S.T., and Mei-chu W. Hsiao. “The Historical Traditions of Taiwan Small-and-Medium Enterprises.” In Taiwan shangye chuantong lunwenji, edited by Huang Fu-san and Ong Chia-yin, 465–524. Taipei: Preparatory Office of the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, 1999.
- Numazaki, Ichiro. “Tainanbang: The Rise and Growth of a Banana-Bunch-Shaped Business Group in Taiwan.” The Developing Economies 31, no. 4 (1993): 485–510.
Week 9, 10/27 (LAN)
Mid-term exam
Week 10, 11/3 (Plilip Hsiaopong Liu) : The role of Taiwan in the global economy
Assembly Time: 11:00
- 13:00-14:20 TSMC Museum of Innovation
- 15:00-16:30 Hsiang-Ke Chao, Professor & Chair/ Ling-Fan Li, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National Tsing Hua University
1. Guanmian Xu, 'From the Atlantic to the Manchu: Taiwan Sugar and the Early Modern World, 1630s–1720s', Journal of World History, 33 (2), pp. 265-299
2. Renchuan, L.,'Fukien's private sea trade in the 16th and 17th centuries', in Development and Decline of Fukien Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries, pp. 163-215
Week 11, 11/10 (LAN)
Transnational network of education and technology in the semiconductor industry
- Shichi Mike Lan, “U.S. Aid, Journalism Education in Taiwan, and a Transnational Network of Chinese-speaking Journalists”, in Yuka Tsuchiya Moriguchi Tsuchiya, Shin Kawashima, and Somei Kobayashi, eds., Knowledge Production in Cold War Asia: US Hegemony and Local Agency (Indiana University Press, 2025), pp.225-254
- Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology. 2022
Invited speakers:
- Ryan Holroyd is Assistant Professor of History at National Chengchi University
- Chia-hao Chen currently serves as an assistant professor at the Institute of History at National Central University. His areas of specialization include business history and economic history. Chen is the author of The Taiwanese Capital and Business Performance: Focusing on the Private Transportation Industry (1895-1954). He has contributed papers to leading international academic journals and has presented at prominent events like the World Economic History Congress and other significant international academic conferences.
Session II: Semiconductor Industry in the Scientific Revolution
Week 12, 11/17– The Scientific Revolution to the Early 20th Centur: Key Figures, Classical Electromagnetism and the Rise of Modern Physics (C.K. Yang)
- From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves: Classical Physicists and Their Discoveries, Emilio Segre, SBN 0716714825.
- From X-rays to Quarks: Modern Physicists and Their Discoveries, Emilio Segre , ISBN 0486457834.
Week 13, 11/24 – The Road to the Semiconductor Industry: World War II and the Birth of the Semiconductor Era (C.K. Yang)
- From X-rays to Quarks: Modern Physicists and Their Discoveries, Emilio Segre , ISBN 0486457834.
- Western Civilizations, 16th edition, Judith G. Coffin and Robert C. Stacey, ISBN-13 9780393930993.
Week 14, 12/1– Generative AI, Media transformation, and impacts (Trisha Lin, Today’s class starts at 12:10. Lunch will be provided)
- Abiri, Gilad. (2024). Generative ai as digital media. Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law, 15(2), 279-332.
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Week 15, 12/8 – Field Trip: TBA (Philip Hsiaopong Liu)
Week 16, 12/15– Quiz (Philip Hsiaopong Liu)
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