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Reviews James Reardon-Anderson. Pollution, Politics, and Foreign Investments in Taiwan: The Lukang Rebellion. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1992. xiv, 121 pp. Hardcover $32.50. For years, scholars and journalists have pointed to the high environmental price Taiwan has paid for its economic miracle. It is for this reason that at first glance one might think that James Reardon-Anderson's book is a story of how the local good guys fight back at powerful industrialists in an attempt to save their beloved hometown from the ravages of toxic waste. But, as the author points out, his study attempts to show how Lukang, a town in the east-central county of Changhua, Taiwan, becomes not merely the focal point of a debate about environmental protection, but a case example of industry, society, and government wrestling with the complexities of an emerging democracy. Reardon-Anderson tells the story of the Lukang rebellion by focusing on Li Tung-liang, a small-business owner who possesses a good deal of local pride, prominence, and political ambition. Li organizes a group of locals to oppose the Dupont Company's construction of a plant that will produce a chemical powder used as a pigment in various petrochemical products. Dupont fails
China Review International – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Mar 30, 1994
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