Affiliated faculty Richard Madsen quoted in Wall Street Journal
Taiwan Charity Has Global Reach
03/12/2010
Simon Montlake,
The Wall Street Journal
Shanlin, Taiwan and Cengkareng, Indonesia
Inside a tent, a poster on the wall tells a story of ruin and resilience: Aid workers in neat blue-and-white uniforms scrape gooey gray mud off an abandoned street in the wake of a destructive typhoon. Outside the tent is a picture of renewal: A new settlement rises in a broad green valley in the town of Shanlin.
The Great Love village, complete with earthquake-resistant schools, churches and houses, will eventually accommodate 1,500 families displaced when Typhoon Morakot pummeled Taiwan last August, triggering floods and landslides that killed 700 people and left tens of thousands homeless.
Many of the new Great Love residents, who began to move in last month, are Taiwanese aborigines who lived in marginal highland communities before the typhoon hit.
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Richard Madsen is affiliated with IR/PS through the Sociology department. Madsen is currently Professor of Sociology and director of the Council on East Asian Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
