asian history
autonomous sovereignty
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central asia history
democratic progressive party
detente
dominant power
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exile regime
intellectually fascinating
international diplomacy
interrelated puzzles
kuomintang
ma ying jeou administration
nationalistic identity
new era of peace
october 1949
peoples republic of china
political strategy
politically difficult
security problems
social economy
taiwan strait
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- ISBN 9780520295988
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Oct 2017
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. China's relation to Taiwan has been in constant contention since the founding of the People's Republic of China in October 1949 and the creation of the defeated Kuomintang (KMT) exile regime on the island two months later. The island's autonomous sovereignty has continually been challenged, initially because of the KMT's stubborn insistence that it continue to represent not just Taiwan but all of China and later, when the tables had turned, because Taiwan refused to cede sovereignty to the then-dominant power that had arisen on the other side of the Strait. One of the things that makes Taiwan so politically difficult and yet so intellectually fascinating is that it --is not merely a security problem, but a ganglion of interrelated puzzles. The optimistic hope of the Ma Ying-jeou administration for a new era of peace and cooperation foundered on a landslide victory by the Democratic Progressive Party, which has made clear its intent to distance Taiwan from China's political embrace.
The Taiwanese are now waiting with bated breath as the relationship tautens. Why did detente fail, and what chance does Taiwan have without it? Contributors to this volume focus on three aspects of the evolving quandary: nationalistic identity, social economy, and political strategy.
Lowell Dittmer is professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is editor in chief of the journal Asian Survey and the author of Sino-Soviet Normalization and Its International Implications, China's Quest for National Identity, China Under Modernization, and South Asia's Nuclear Crisis.
