Eleanor B. Morris Wu, From China to Taiwan. Historical, Anthropological, and Religious Perspective

The title of this book is not very clear—and its purpose is scarcely more so. Judging by what we are told in the short introduction, the aim is to look at the religion of the Taiwanese people within its overall anthropological and historical context. The first chapter, based largely on Agricultural Involution by Clifford Geertz (1963), outlines the overall development of Taiwanese society. It depicts it as a model of modernisation that has maintained and sometimes even strengthened the family..