Post-Developmental State and Cross-Border Consulting Services：Taiwanese Architects in China

• Main Authors: Chung-Hsi Tu, 杜宗熹
• Other Authors: Shiuh-Shen CHIEN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01308155334409995809

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 地理環境資源學研究所 === 101 === Abstract: Existing research on Taiwan, some of which comes from the Developmental State theory, has successfully theorized the role of the state and its intervention in promoting manufacture industries domestically and internationally. However, what has not yet done is why, by whom and under what circumstances do the Taiwan design-related consultant services have been expanded in a cross-border way and what kinds of roles played by the state behind the process. This thesis aims to fill up this gap, with a particular empirical investigation on the Taiwan architecture industry entering China. Under the context of the China’s engagement with globalization since 1978, there are two dramatic transformations: (1) industrialization, and (2) urbanization. It is widely known that the Taiwanese investors have contributed greatly in post-Mao China’s industrialization, while the Taiwanese architects and related professionals do not played an equally important role as compared with their manufacture counterparts. It is (1) partly because of differences in terms of institutions of production of space between Taiwan and China, (2) partly because of the very passive role of the state in Taiwan, which is still very manufacture-focused instead of design service oriented, and (3) partly because of underdevelopment of the architecture association in Taiwan. However, some of Taiwanese architects are still able to enter the China’s construction market. Three types of cross-border Taiwanese architects are particularly identified in terms of their main sources of clients in China. First, C.Y. Lee, probably one of most famous Taiwanese architects, entered the China’s market by using some Chinese symbols to enhance his reputations in China. Second, C.C. Hsu, specializing in the design of hospitals, has benefited from the China’s health reform and gained more business in China after he at the beginning provided his service to Taiwanese hospital investors. Third, J.J. Pan went to the Chinese market by mainly following his Taiwanese clients in the high-tech industry. Keywords: design-related consultant services, cross-border, Taiwanese architects, the architecture association, the state, China