Growing Up in Three Cultures: A Personal Journey of a Taiwanese-American Woman

by Dora Shu-fang Dien

Overview

Growing Up in Three Cultures:

Journey of a Taiwanese-American Woman

Growing up in three cultures — Chinese, Japanese and American — the author relates her personal journey and the way her motherland has transitioned from a Qing Empire’s frontier island to a Japanese colony to an independent and much Americanized state while maintaining its unique identity.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014732291
Publisher:	Outskirts Press, Inc.
Publication date:	06/15/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	158
File size:	352 KB

About the Author

About the Author: Born and raised in a scholarly family in Taiwan, Professor Emerita Dora Shu-fang Dien came to the United States in 1959, earned her B.A. from UC Berkeley (1961, education), M.A. from the University of Hawaii (1962, social psychology), and Ph.D. from Columbia University (1971, social psychology). She taught in the Department of Human Development at California State University, Hayward (now East Bay) from 1971 to 1998 and retired from teaching to further pursue her writing projects. She has published articles written both in Chinese and in English. A collection of essays written in Chinese, Don’t Underestimate Young Children: Developmental Theories and Child-Rearing Guidelines, was published in Taipei, Taiwan in 1989 and has since gone through four printings. Her articles written in English offer a comparative perspective on aspects of Chinese, Japanese, and Western societies. Since her retirement, she has published Ding Ling and Her Mother: A Cultural Psychological Study in 2001, Empress Wu Zetian in Fiction and in History: Female Defiance in Confucian China in 2003, and The Chinese Worldview Regarding Justice and the Supernatural: The Cultural and Historical Roots of Rule by Law, in 2007, all published by Nova Science Publishers. Her book on Ding Ling was translated into Chinese by Fan Baoci and published by the Xiamen University Press in 2006.