TY  - GEN
AU  - Dittmer,Lowell
AU  - Dittmer,Lowell
TI  - Taiwan and China : Fitful Embrace
SN  - luminos.38
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - History
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Asian history
KW  - taishang
KW  - taiwan strait
KW  - 1992 consensus
KW  - integration
KW  - three links
KW  - strategic ambiguity
KW  - five no's
KW  - Beijing
KW  - China
KW  - Cross-Strait relations
KW  - Kuomintang
KW  - United States
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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 islands 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 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/78b4eae9-a588-4116-9dfa-614843040735/638971.pdf
UR  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31093
ER  -