The Taiwan-China Connection: Democracy and Development Across the Taiwan Straits [Paperback]

Tse-kang Leng (Author)

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Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Basic Books (Aug 2 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0813390060
ISBN-13: 978-0813390062
Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 281 g

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Exploring the transitional role of the state in Taiwan’s economic development, this book focuses especially on the impact of trade with mainland China. Tse-Kang Leng argues that the basic structure of political forces within Taiwan and its pattern of external economic relations have been transformed in the 1990s, with cross-Straits trade playing a key part. Although politically embarrassing to the government, this trade provides an economic opportunity that is irresistibly attractive to business interests.Thus, cross-Straits trade and investment have served as a fulcrum by which societal interests have moved an unwilling state. Going beyond the “strong state” paradigm, the author’s analysis of current cross-Straits economic policies reveals a sharp contrast between Taiwan’s authoritarian past and its current era of democratization. Weighing the crucial forces at work in Taiwan—democratization, state-society interaction, and economic interdependence with mainland China—Leng provides a thorough analysis of Taiwan’s political and economic development in the 1990s and beyond.

About the Author

Tse-Kang Leng is an associate research fellow and chief of the Cooperation and Exchange Section of the Institute of International Relations at National Chengchi University, Taipei.

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4.0 out of 5 stars the reality of the Straits relationship, July 17 2000

By Winnie King - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: The Taiwan-China Connection: Democracy and Development Across the Taiwan Straits (Paperback)

This researcher has to admit that this book provides asian studies with a clearer and more realistic view of the relations between the Taiwan Straits. Taking away the political games being handed the general public by governments of the ROC, PRC, and USA, this book provides not only an in-depth introduction to the history and current context of relations between the ROC and PRC, to also give us thought as to how more intense relations between these two regions will aid in their growth, development, and world peace.

4.0 out of 5 stars the reality of the Straits relationship, July 17 2000

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This review is from: The Taiwan-China Connection: Democracy and Development Across the Taiwan Straits (Paperback)

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