Authors:Martin Edmonds, Michael M. Tsai,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: security, maritime, taiwan
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-06-19
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 0415297362
ISBN-13: 9780415297363
The relationship between Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China is regarded as a very serious potential source of conflict in East Asia, especially now that the questions of Hong Kong and Macau have been settled, and increased democratisation in Taiwan is seen as a threat by mainland China. This book, which brings together leading international scholars of maritime security, and also strategic thinkers from within Taiwan itself, examines a wide range of questions concerning Taiwan’s perception of the naval threat from mainland China, and how Taiwan’s navy and naval strate
Author: Jay Taylor
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: revolutions, china, taiwan, kuo, ching, son, chiang, generalissimo
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2000-10-15
List price: $62.50
ISBN-10: 0674002873
ISBN-13: 9780674002876
Chiang Ching-kuo, son and political heir of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, was born in 1910, when Chinese women, nearly all illiterate, hobbled about on bound feet and men wore pigtails as symbols of subservience to the Manchu Dynasty. In his youth Ching-kuo was a Communist and a Trotskyite, and he lived twelve years in Russia. He died in 1988 as the leader of Taiwan, a Chinese society with a flourishing consumer economy and a budding but already wild, woolly, and open democracy. He was an actor in many of the events of the last century that shaped the history of China’s struggles and
Authors:Gary Marvin Davison, Barbara E. Reed,
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: taiwan, customs, culture
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1998-09-30
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0313302987
ISBN-13: 9780313302985
Taiwanese society is in the midst of an immense, exciting effort to define itself, seeking to erect a contemporary identity upon the foundation of a highly distinctive history. This book provides a thorough overview of Taiwanese cultural life. The introduction familiarizes students and interested readers with the island’s key geographical and demographic features, and provides a chronological summary of Taiwanese history. In the following seven chapters, readers gain insight into Taiwanese customs and culture through its thought and religion; kinship and marriage systems; literature and
Author: John W. Garver
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Keywords: taiwan, democratization, states, united, china, face
Number of Pages: 193
Published: 1997-09
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0295976179
ISBN-13: 9780295976174
Taiwan’s first presidential election, in 1996, sparked a Sino-U.S. military showdown that resulted in the biggest show of U.S. naval force in East Asia since the Vietnam War. This book is the first to explore the origins and triangular dynamics of that historic confrontation. Analyzing the key decisions and misperceptions that led to the Taiwan Strait crisis, Garver warns that it may usher in a more confrontational era of Sino-U.S. relations. China is already emerging as an economic powerhouse and fears of its becoming an expansionist military power have grown in recent years as China ha
Author: Ralph N. Clough
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: world, politics, asia, strait, conflict, taiwan, cooperation
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1999-01
List price: $79.00
ISBN-10: 0847693252
ISBN-13: 9780847693252
The 1996 deployment of two U.S. carrier battle groups to the waters off Taiwan in response to the firing of Chinese missiles close to Taiwan’s shores brought home suddenly the genuine danger of a military clash between the United States and China over the Taiwan issue. In this timely book, distinguished analyst Ralph N. Clough assesses the intractable differences between Beijing and Taipei over the status of Taiwan, the rise and growing strength of an opposition party advocating Taiwan independence, and Beijing’s threat to use military force to prevent independence. At the same tim
Author: Heather Smith
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: winning, market, 1980s, korea, policy, taiwan, industry
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-06-01
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 1840642491
ISBN-13: 9781840642490
The growth in industrial competitiveness and interdependence has led to an increased interest in the role of industrial policy in achieving economic growth objectives. Heather Smith re-ignites the contentious debate of the role of the state using East Asian economic development in general with particular emphasis on Taiwan and Korea. Using quantitative techniques, she analyzes the view that industry policy interventions were a necessary factor explaining Taiwan’s economic performance in the 1980s. Lessons for other countries attempting to upgrade their industrial structure are drawn from
Author: Steve Tsang
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: politics, economics, strategy, military, attacks, taiwan, china
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-01-13
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0415407850
ISBN-13: 9780415407854
This is a new analysis of the key issues facing Chinese policy makers in their approach towards Taiwan. This is one of the most tense and potentially explosive relationships in world politics. This book explains succinctly the impetus, the methods and the consequences if China is to use force, a prospect that has become greater following the return of President Chen Shui-bian to power in Taiwan for a second term in 2004. If China Attacks Taiwan shows how in reality there can be no real winner in such an eventuality and how the consequences would be dire not just for Taiwan and China, but East
