The Trouble With Taiwan

Author : Kerry Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786995239
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trouble with Taiwan written by Kerry Brown and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taiwan is one of the great paradoxes of the international order. A place with its own flag, currency, government and military, but which most of the world does not recognise as a sovereign country. An island that China regards as a 'rebellious province', but which has managed to survive defiantly for decades. Now with its neighbour China a major power on the world stage and ally United States looking increasingly inward, Taiwan's position has never been more precarious. Kerry Brown and Kalley Wu Tzu-hui reveal how the island's shifting fortunes have been shaped by centuries of conquest and by a cast of dynamic characters, by Cold War intrigue and the rise of its neighbour as a global power, explaining how this tiny island, caught between the agendas of two superpowers, is attempting to find its place in a rapidly changing world order. The Trouble with Taiwan relates the story of a fascinating nation and culture, and how its disputed status speaks to a wider, global story about Chinese control and waning US influence.

Author : Murray A. Rubinstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317459075
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taiwan: A New History written by Murray A. Rubinstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive portrait of Taiwan. It covers the major periods in the development of this small but powerful island province/nation. The work is designed in the style of the multi-volume "Cambridge History of China".

Author : Lowell Dittmer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520295986
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taiwan and China written by Lowell Dittmer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 insistence that it continue to represent not just Taiwan but all of China—and later because Taiwan refused to cede sovereignty to the then-dominant power that had arisen on the other side of the Taiwan Strait. One thing 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 détente 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.

Author : Shelley Rigger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442230029
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Taiwan Matters written by Shelley Rigger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in an updated paperback edition, Why Taiwan Matters offers a comprehensive but compact introduction to a country that exercises a role in the world far greater than its tiny size would indicate. Leading expert Shelley Rigger explains how Taiwan became such a key global player, highlighting economic and political breakthroughs so impressive they have been called "miracles." She links these accomplishments to Taiwan's determined society, vibrant culture, and unique history. Drawing on arts, economics, politics, and international relations, Rigger explores Taiwan's importance to China, the United States, and the world. Considering where Taiwan may be headed in its wary standoff with China, she traces how the focus of Taiwan's domestic politics has shifted to a Taiwan-centered strategy. All readers interested in Asia and international affairs will find this an accessible and entertaining overview, replete with human interest stories and colorful examples of daily life in Taiwan.

Author : Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780805779295
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States, 1945-1992 written by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tucker also investigates the impact of immigrants from Taiwan and Hong Kong in the U.S., ranging from achievements in art and scholarship to gang violence tied to drugs, illegal immigration and politics.

Author : Captivating History
Publisher : Ch Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781647480288
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Taiwan written by Captivating History and published by Ch Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-10 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Taiwan is astonishing. Politically, Taiwan- was a warlord culture. The Portuguese, when passing by the island in the mid-1540s, called the island "Ilha Formosa," which means "Beautiful Island." Then the Dutch came in the 1620s, searching for a base of operations for the Dutch East India Company.

Author : Emma Jinhua Teng
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684173930
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taiwan’s Imagined Geography written by Emma Jinhua Teng and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Until 300 years ago, the Chinese considered Taiwan a “land beyond the seas,” a “ball of mud” inhabited by “naked and tattooed savages.” The incorporation of this island into the Qing empire in the seventeenth century and its evolution into a province by the late nineteenth century involved not only a reconsideration of imperial geography but also a reconceptualization of the Chinese domain. The annexation of Taiwan was only one incident in the much larger phenomenon of Qing expansionism into frontier areas that resulted in a doubling of the area controlled from Beijing and the creation of a multi-ethnic polity. The author argues that travelers’ accounts and pictures of frontiers such as Taiwan led to a change in the imagined geography of the empire. In representing distant lands and ethnically diverse peoples of the frontiers to audiences in China proper, these works transformed places once considered non-Chinese into familiar parts of the empire and thereby helped to naturalize Qing expansionism. By viewing Taiwan–China relations as a product of the history of Qing expansionism, the author contributes to our understanding of current political events in the region."

Author : Jonathan Manthorpe
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 125012641X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forbidden Nation written by Jonathan Manthorpe and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 400 years, Taiwan has suffered at the hands of multiple colonial powers, but it has now entered the decade when its independence will be won or lost. At the heart of Taiwan's story is the curse of geography that placed the island on the strategic cusp between the Far East and Southeast Asia and made it the guardian of some of the world's most lucrative trade routes. It is the story of the dogged determination of a courageous people to overcome every obstacle thrown in their path. Forbidden Nation tells the dramatic story of the island, its people, and what brought them to this moment when their future will be decided.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States China Policy and the Problem of Taiwan written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hsiao-ting Lin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674969626
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accidental State written by Hsiao-ting Lin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defeated by Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to Taiwan to establish a rival state, thereby creating the Two Chinas dilemma that vexes international diplomacy to this day. Hsiao-ting Lin challenges this conventional narrative, showing the many ways the ad hoc creation of this not fully sovereign state was accidental and serendipitous.