Taiwan's Social Changes in the Patterns of Social Solidarity in the 20th Century

Abstract

The major task of this article is to investigate Taiwan's social changes in the 20th century. The focus is on the social rather than the economic and political dimensions, even though it is very difficult to prevent mentioning Taiwan's economic development miracle as well as recent political democratization. This article mainly discusses how economic and political structures affect social changes, and then explores some impacts of social changes in subsequent political transformation.