Anthropologists have long sought to extricate their work from the policies and agendas of those who dominate and often oppress their native subjects. Looking through Taiwan is an uncompromising look at a troubling chapter in American anthropology that reveals what happens when anthropologists fail to make fundamental ethnic and political distinctions in their work. Keelung Hong and Stephen O. Murray examine how Taiwanese realities have been represented and misrepresented in American social science literature, especially anthropology, in the post World War II period. They trace...

Anthropologists have long sought to extricate their work from the policies and agendas of those who dominate-and often oppress-their native subjects. Looking through Taiwan is an uncompromising look at a troubling chapter in American anthropology that reveals what happens when anthropologists fail to make fundamental ethnic and political distinctions in their work. Keelung Hong and Stephen O. Murray examine how Taiwanese realities have been represented-and misrepresented-in American social science literature, especially anthropology, in the post-World War II period. They trace...