Global Silicon Valley Home

Lives and Landscapes Within Taiwanese American Trans-Pacific Culture

AvShenglin Chang

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

Del i serien Asian America

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Beskrivning

The economic boom of the 1990s that led to the rapid rise of computer hardware and software companies (on both sides of the Pacific Rim) also led to the rise of a trans-Pacific commuter culture, a culture in which thousands of Taiwanese-born high-tech engineers realized that they could greatly increase their career opportunities by establishing a life-style that allowed them and their families to regularly commute between two homes, one in Silicon Valley and the other in Taiwan. The Global Silicon Valley Home takes a close look at how participants in the jet-set, wired-to-the-Net, trans-Pacific commuter culture have invented new ways of thinking about how their homes reflect their personal identities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-11-28
Mått:152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt:526 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Asian America
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Stanford University Press
ISBN:9780804752152

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Tillverkningsindustri inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Shenglin Chang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences and Landscape Architecture at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Recensioner i media

"Chang's nuanced readings of her subjects' self-narratives and physical settings provide a new wealth of detail concerning the material manifestations of mobile lives." - The International History Review

Innehållsförteckning

Contents Preface: All Leaves Fall Back to Their Roots000 Memories and Identities Chapter 1. Returning Home in the Information Age000 Chapter 2. Toward the Trans-Pacific Home000 People Chapter 3. Made By Taiwan: The Trans-Pacific Commuters000 Chapter 4. The Emerging Transnational Family Life000 Chapter 5. Transcultural Lifestyles Across the Pacific Rim000 Communities Chapter 6. Ranch 99: A Virtual Chinatown000 Chapter 7. Heaven and Hell: Silicon Valley in Hsinchu Science Park000 Chapter 8. Building a Global City in My Backyard000 Homes Chapter 9. Mirror Homes000 Chapter 10. Homes Across the Water000 Chapter 11. Leaving and Returning in Trans-Pacific Commuter Culture000 Notes000 References000 Index000