The theme of this book is to review the diversity of regional transformation and industrial restructuring in Taiwan industries in 1980s-2008. The structural frame and theoretical guide for investigation have three contextual sets: the global industrial integration, the cross-strait political economy, and post-development state intervention. Global production is the basis for cross-border production networking. Cross-state political economy, induced the state’s concern of dependency, sets up political hostility across the strait. Post-developmental state intervention supports the ascending tendency in global value chains for Taiwan’s industries, and promulgated anti cross-strait investment regulations. These context sets for industrial development provide a coherent analytic structure for studying Taiwan's industrial organizational adjustment and spatial restructuring. How industries were reorganized transformed and production regions were re-formed are the foci for empirical studies. This volume is divided into five parts with ten chapters.
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The first part gives the general regional characteristics resulting from Taiwan’s political economy in 1980s-2008. The two chapters illustrate the economic and the political spatial consequences of the cross-strait effects. |
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The second part reviews the key factor for the evolutionary changes in Taiwan’s production regions, with a chapter each on the historical and present regional formation. |
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The third part explores two state supported industries - the well-established information and communication technology industry and the emerging software industry. |
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The fourth part examines the cross-strait production region formation of two un-assisted industries - the bicycle industry and the Mandarin pop music industry. |
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The fifth part investigates an industry and one region, both of which are little affected by the cross-strait effects. A rural district of hosiery production and the Eastern Taiwan region resists cross-strait migration, but for different reasons. |
This book gives an up-to-date insider's reports and commentary and seeks explanations beyond the rationale of globalization alone. Taiwan's cases of industrial global expansion provide a greater vista to our understanding of industrial strategies and production networks. By expanding the scope of research, it exposes the nuances of Taiwan’s industrial restructuring and network coordination, the how and why they differ from each other.
Reginald Yin-Wang Kwok
Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jung-Ying CHANG
Assistant Professor of Graduate Institute of Urban Planning, National Taipei University
Yi-Fong CHEN
Assistant Professor of Graduate Institute for Taiwanese Ethno-Development, National Dong Hwa University
Chia-Ho CHING
Professor of Urban Planning, National Taipei University
Tsu-Lung CHOU
Professor of Urban Planning, National Taipei University
Chu-Joe HSIA
Professor of Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University
Li-Ming HSIA
Professor of Regional Policy and Development, National Taitung University
Jinn-Yuh HSU
Professor of Department of Geography, National Taiwan University
Te-Chuan LI
Advisor of Taipei County Government and PhD student of Urban Planning, National Taipei University
Ji-Ping LIN
Associate Research Fellow of Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica
Le-Xin LIN
Master of Science in Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University
Yu-Chun LIN
Assistant Professor at Department of Social Development, National PingTung University of Education
Shih-Ying TSAI
PhD student of Urban Planning, National Taipei University
Jenn Hwan WANG
Chair professor of Graduate Institute of Development Studies, and Director, Center for China Studies, National Chengchi University
Ethan Yougason
Adjunct Assistant Professor of History and International Cultural Studies, Brigham Young University of Hawaii
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Contributors
Introduction: Globalization, Cross-strait Political Economy and Post-Development State Intervention in Taiwan's Industrial Regionalization
Reginald Yin-Wang KWOK
PART I: POLITICAL ECONOMY AND REGIONAL SPECIALIZATION IN TAIWAN
Chapter 1: Globalization and the State: Effects on Regional
Specialization
Tsu-Lung CHOU and Te-Chuan LI
Chapter 2: Contention in Regional Government: Impact on
Domestic Production Specialization
Tsu-Lung CHOU and Shin-Ying TSAI
PART II: KEY DETERMINANT FOR
REGIONAL FORMATION
Chapter 3: Cross-strait and Internal Migration: Key Factors for
Traditional Regional Formation
Ji-Ping LIN
Chapter 4: The Cross-strait Effects: Differential Regional
Industrial Clusters
Chia-Ho CHING and Tsu-Lung CHOU
PART III: STATE ENDORSED KEY
INDUSTRIES
Chapter 5: Information and Communication Technology Industry:
Rival Sates vs. Integrated Economies
Jenn-Hwan WANG
Chapter 6: Software Industry: Integrating with the Global
Networks
Chia-Ho CHING
PART IV: UNASSISTED PRIVATE
INDUSTRIES
Chapter 7: Bicycle Dual-track Industrial Regions: Reformation
of a Traditional Industry
Yu-Chun LIN
Chapter 8: Mandarin Pop Music Industrial Region: Contradictory
State and Latent Cross-strait Organization
Jung-Ying CHANG
PART V: MARGINALIZED PRODUCTION AND
REGION
Chapter 9: Shetou Hosiery District: Subsistent and Repositioning
Strategies
Jinn-Yuh HSU, Chu-Joe HSIA and Le-Xin LIN
Chapter 10: Regional Marginalization of Eastern Taiwan:
Interior Dependency, Geographical Imagination,
and Civic Development
Li-Ming HSIA, Yi-Fong CHEN and Ethan YORGSON
Postscript: Recent Regional Strategies and Future Prospect
Reginald Yin-Wang KWOK
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