Island Tinkerers
Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan’s Computing Industry
$155.66
- Paperback
456 pages
- Release Date
11 February 2025
Summary
How Taiwan rose to global prominence in high tech manufacturing, from computer maker to the world’s leading chip manufacturer.
How did Taiwan, a former Japanese colony and the last fortress of the defeated Chinese Nationalists, ascend to such heights in high-tech manufacturing? In Island Tinkerers, Honghong Tinn tells the critical history of how hobbyists and enthusiasts in Taiwan, including engineers, technologists, technocrats, computer users, and engineers-turned-entrepren…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262549387 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262549387 |
| Author: | Honghong Tinn |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 456 |
| Release Date: | 11 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm |
| Series: | History of Computing |
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Critics Review
“Engrossing and meticulously researched.”
—Taipei Times
“Island Tinkerers helps us understand how impoverished east Asian countries developed some of the world’s most sophisticated and prosperous economies.”
—IEEE History Center
“[Island Tinkerers] is an important corrective to the myths that underpin tech companies’ cooperation with and co-optation by ambitious governments in Asia or the West.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books
“The book sparks valuable questions for future research, particularly in ongoing discussions about imported technology in the history of technology in East Asia… Island Tinkerers encourages scholars to enhance the conceptual frameworks we bring to the intertwined histories of technology, innovation, and manufacturing.”
—East Asian Science, Technology and Society
“Against all the saber-rattling, myth-making, and visions of world domination, Honghong Tinn’s new book, Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan’s Computing Industry, offers a timely intervention and powerful antidote.”
—The Nation
About The Author
Honghong Tinn
Honghong Tinn is Assistant Professor in the Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
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