Technological Construction as Identity Formation: the High Speed Rail, Hybrid Culture and Engineering/Political Subjectivity in Taiwan

Technological Construction as Identity Formation: the High Speed Rail, Hybrid Culture and Engineering/Political Subjectivity in Taiwan

This project examines the construction of the Taiwan high-speed rail (THSR; 台灣高鐵) technology as a vehicle of Taiwanese identity formation. The THSR project is a product of a hybridization of design from Japan and Europe. The Japanese and Europeans transferred their HSR technology to Taiwan, but Ta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chang, Kuo-Hui
Other Authors: Science and Technology Studies
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Virginia Tech 2017
Subjects:
sociology of technology
technology policy
engineering culture
national identity
high speed rail
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77976
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05312010-160002/

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http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77976
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05312010-160002/

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