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Beer Houses: An Indicator of Cultural Change in Taiwan |
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| Authors: | Christopher Sutherland Jack Williams Cotton Mather |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Geography , Michigan State University , East Lansing, 48824;2. Michigan State University , East Lansing, 48824;3. University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, 55455;4. New Mexico State University , Las Cruces, 88003 |
| Abstract: | Taiwan is undergoing spectacular economic development with facets of Westernization that have strong social and political overtones. The Westernization process includes the introduction of the American "Old West" beer house. These beer houses manifest the cultural stress involved in the transfer of a seemingly simple economic element into a traditionally conservative and stable Oriental society. |
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