Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan's Computing Industry

Description: "A critical history of how Taiwan rose to global prominence in high-tech manufacturing"-- Provided by publisher.

Review Quotes: "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