by Roger Mark Selya (University of Cincinnati, USA)

Roger Selya received his A.B. from Boston University, his A.M. from Harvard University, and his PhD from the University of Minnesota. He has served on the faculty at National Taiwan, Tel Aviv, Bar Ilan, Ben Gurion Universities, as well as the University of Connecticut, University of Northern Iowa, and the University of Cincinnati. He has published widely on issues relating to the economic development of Taiwan and its consequences on industrial location, the environment, population, and public health. He is currently Professor and Head, Department of Geography, University of Cincinnati.
 

This book describes and analyzes the demographic changes that took place in Taiwan between 1945 and 1995. It uses an interdisciplinary methodology so that different approaches to demographic change can be compared and contrasted. It attempts to evaluate Taiwan's experience so that lessons for the Third World can be extracted. The content and presentation of the material are deliberately designed to replicate the 1954 work of Barclay, Demographic Change and Colonial Development in Taiwan. As such the book seeks to provide the reasons that economic development without demographic change took place under the Japanese while development with demographic change took place under the Chinese. The volume is richly illustrated with some 82 original maps and graphs.