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  • The Development of Civility In Taiwan

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    Schak, David C
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    Schak, David C.
    Year published
    2009
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    Abstract
    Since the 1990s Taiwan has seen rapid and profound changes in public sphere deportment, labelled below as civility. Prior to that time, despite a government campaign beginning in the 1960s to improve public morality and behaviour, there was little if any change until democratization and the growth of civil society were underway. Aside from better treatment of strangers and caring for public spaces and facilities, the changes include identity shifts from subject to citizen and from belonging to a closed, primordial community to membership in the Taiwan polity, movements which empower minority political interests and benevolent ...
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    Since the 1990s Taiwan has seen rapid and profound changes in public sphere deportment, labelled below as civility. Prior to that time, despite a government campaign beginning in the 1960s to improve public morality and behaviour, there was little if any change until democratization and the growth of civil society were underway. Aside from better treatment of strangers and caring for public spaces and facilities, the changes include identity shifts from subject to citizen and from belonging to a closed, primordial community to membership in the Taiwan polity, movements which empower minority political interests and benevolent government interactions with the populace. These changes indicate a democratization in Taiwan that has taken root not only at the government level but also at the grass roots.
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    Journal Title
    Pacific Affairs
    Volume
    82
    Issue
    3
    Publisher URI
    https://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/articles/the-development-of-civility-in-taiwan/
    Copyright Statement
    © 2009 University of British Columbia. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Human society
    Social change
    Language, communication and culture
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/29511
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