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Politics in Taiwanby Shelley Rigger
Routledge 1999; US$ 64.95This book is an ideal, one-stop resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of political science, particuarly those interested in the international politics of China and the Asia-Pacific. more...
Taiwan and Chinese Nationalismby Christopher Hughes
Routledge 1997; US$ 195.00This study examines the problems which will inevitably arise as a result of China's claims on Taiwan, and analyses Taiwan's 'post-nationalist' identity. more...
Aborigines of Taiwanby Josiane Cauquelin
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 44.95The first comprehensive study of the Puyuma people of Taiwan, this book is based on extensive field research over a period of twenty years. more...
Taiwanby Michael Swaine; James Mulvenon; Kevin Pollpeter
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95Addressing Taiwan's foreign and defence policymaking, this book asserts that the United States should continue to maintain a public allegiance to the "One China" concept, combined with a posture of public ambiguity regarding the level of the US defence commitment. more...
Is Taiwan Chinese?by Melissa J. Brown
University of California Press 2004; US$ 15.95The "one China" policy officially supported by the People's Republic of China, the United States, and other countries asserts that there is only one China and Taiwan is a part of it. The debate over whether the people of Taiwan are Chinese or independently Taiwanese is, Melissa J. Brown argues, a matter of identity: Han ethnic identity, Chinese national identity, and the relationship of both of these to the new Taiwanese identity forged in the 1990s. In a unique comparison of ethnographic and historical case studies drawn from both Taiwan and China, Brown's book shows how identity is shaped by social experience?not culture and ancestry, as is commonly claimed in political rhetoric. more...
Chinas Rise, Taiwans Dilemmas And International Peaceby Edward Friedman
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 44.95Centering on the primary issues facing Taiwan, China and the US, the book analyses Taiwan's need to prevent China's rule suffocating their cherished democracy. more...
Untying the Knotby Richard C. Bush
Brookings Institution Press 2005; US$ 24.95The relationship between Taiwan and China is a paradox. On the one hand, the two economies are becoming increasingly integrated, but on the other hand, the long-running and changing political dispute between the two governments remains unresolved. more...
Lee Teng-Hui and Taiwan's Quest for Identityby Shih-shan Henry Tsai
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 81.00The book is an account of Taiwan's evolving national consciousness told through the biography of its former President Lee Teng-hui - the central figure in the island's political transformation over the past two decades. In describing the broader historical and social context of the various stages of Lee's life, the book also analyzes Taiwan's own evolution during the past century as a Japanese colony, a Leninist party-state dictatorship, and then an American-inspired fledgling democracy. The book explores such questions as: Is Lee Teng-hui an opportunistic recidivist who is interested only in his own self-preservation, or is he a hero who not only propelled Taiwan into a new era, but also constructed a new national identity... more...
Legitimacy, Meaning and Knowledge in the Making of Taiwanese Identityby Mark Harrison
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 85.00Offers an approach to understanding the formation of Taiwan's identity. This work applies contemporary social theory and historiography to a detail on Taiwanese politics, culture and society. more...
Cultural, Ethnic, and Political Nationalism in Contemporary Taiwanby John Makeham; A-chin Hsiau
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 85.00Focusing on the indigenization of politics and culture and its close connection with the identity politics of ethnicity and nationalism, this volume is an attempt to map prominent contours of the indigenization paradigm as it has unfolded in Taiwan. It also deals with reactions to indigenization in social, cultural and intellectual domains. more...









