This course guides you through important topics for thoroughly comprehending Taiwan's culture and utilizes it to understand the Sinophone World. To begin, we review the historical development and demographic composition of Taiwan. The second section reviews the four core philosophic/religious doctrines of Taiwan and the Sinophone World: Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and folk religion. The instructor introduces the cultural, religious, and philosophical practices in Taiwan and the Sinophone World, and illustrates how those philosophical doctrines are realized in these practices.
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