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Taiwan has been depicted as an island facing the incessant threat of forcible unification with the People's Republic of China. Why, then, has Taiwan spent more than three decades pouring capital and talent into China? In award-winning Rival Partners , Wu Jieh-min follows the development of Taiwanese enterprises in China over twenty-five years and provides fresh insights. The geopolitical shift in Asia beginning in the 1970s and the global restructuring of value chains since the 1980s created strong incentives for Taiwanese entrepreneurs to rush into China despite high political risks and insecure property rights. Taiwanese investment, in conjunction with Hong Kong capital, laid the foundation for the world's factory to flourish in the southern province of Guangdong, but official Chinese narratives play down Taiwan's vital contribution. It is hard to imagine the Guangdong model without Taiwanese investment, and, without the Guangdong model, China's rise could not have occurred. Going beyond the received wisdom of the "China miracle" and "Taiwan factor," Wu delineates how Taiwanese business people, with the cooperation of local officials, ushered global capitalism into China. By partnering with its political archrival, Taiwan has benefited enormously, while helping to cultivate an economic superpower that increasingly exerts its influence around the world

Analyzes the 2004 referenda in Taiwan from two viewpoints: "a repertoire of social movement" or "an instrument of national security." Amidst the Blue-Green sparring on cross-strait issues, three questions are studied: (1) how national security issues became a political issue; (2) the purpose of the refenda for the social movement arena; & (3) the differences between the social movement & national security discourses in the referenda. At the base of the issue is a serious debate regarding the meaning of public culture & political participation. Many accuse Chen Shui-bian of manipulating the issues of constitutional revision, sovereignty, & national identity out of self-interest motives, thereby creating unnecessary external tension. The social movement discourse has focused on the referenda as a grass-roots collective action to supplement representative democracy & stop elite power. 1 Table, 1 Appendix. L. A. Hoffman

Many researchers have redefined citizenship to better understand the membership status aspired and demanded by contemporary migrants. As a result, the concept of "membership" as opposed to citizenship was proposed in delineating the decoupling between citizenship and nationality; immigrant demands for rights and state policies in response can thereby be interpreted without considering the political meanings of citizenship. However, the decoupling of citizenship and national identity can be challenged when it comes to dual citizenship, especially when the homeland and host states are engaged in political tensions. This article examines the shifting policies of China (the People's Republic of China, or PRC) and Taiwan (the Republic of China, or ROC) towards the citizenship conferred to Taiwanese migrants in China. The findings of this research suggest that political dimension (including political rights and obligations) should be regarded as an integral part of citizenship (i.e. national membership) especially in the rival-state context. The Taiwan-China case can contribute to our understanding of citizenship policy changes under the double pressure of inter-state rivalry and globalization. The globalizing forces help create conditions for "flexible citizenship" in the "zones of hypergrowth", while in the case of Taiwan-China inter-state competition draws governments and people back to zones of loyalty, the nationally defined memberships. Adapted from the source document.

Re-thinking China's influence across surrounding jurisdictions : a concentric centre-periphery framework / Brian C.H. Fong -- More than sharp power : Chinese influence operations in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and beyond / Wu Jieh-min -- China's assimilation of peripheries in former Qing imperial frontiers : a comparative-historical perspective / Hung Ho-fung -- Peripheral nationalisms of Taiwan and Hong Kong under China's influence : a comparative-nationalism perspective / Wu Rwei-ren -- China's empire-building across peripheries : a comparative-imperialism perspective / Kwong Kin-ming -- China's influence on Hong Kong's elections : evidence from Legislative Council elections / Ma Ngok -- China's influence on Hong Kong's economy : lessons from mainlander tourism / Jackson Yeh -- China's influence on Hong Kong's media : subduing press freedom / Chan Chi Kit -- China's influence on Hong Kong's entertainment industry : lessons from film production / Klavier Wang -- China's influence on Hong Kong's religions : inter-religious comparison / Ying-ho Kwong -- China's influence on Taiwan's elections : the impact of the "1992 Consensus" on presidential elections / Wu Jieh-min and Liao Mei -- China's influence on Taiwan's economy : the economic statecraft of mainlander tourism / Tsai Hung-Jeng -- China's influence on Taiwan's media : A model of transnational diffusion of Chinese censorship / Huang Jaw-nian -- China's influence on Taiwan's entertainment industry : the Chinese state, entertainment capital, and netizens in the witch-hunt for "Taiwan independence suspects" / Liao Mei -- China's influence on Taiwan's religions : Mazu belief across the strait / Ku Ming-chun and Hong Ying-fa -- China's influence in Southeast Asia : no easy answers / Ian Chong -- China's influence in South Asia : under the shadow of the Sino-Indian relationship / Chietigj Bajpaee -- China's influence in Central Asia : Sinophobia and the wave of anti-China protests / Jun Kumakura -- China's influence in Australia and New Zealand : making the democratic world safe for dictatorship / Kevin Carrico and Feng Chongyi -- China's influence and the pushback : tentative conclusions beyond Hong Kong and Taiwan / Andrew J. Nathan -- The place of Hong Kong and Taiwan in the Asia policies of the Trump administration / Richard C. Bush.

"This book explains the contexts, causes and consequences of the 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, a 79-day mass occupation protest in one of the world's most affluent financial centers"--

This timely and important collection of original essays analyzes China's foremost social cleavage: the rural–urban gap. It is now clear that the Chinese communist revolution, though professing dedication to an egalitarian society, in practice created a rural order akin to serfdom, in which 80 percent of the population was effectively bound to the land. China is still struggling with that legacy. The reforms of 1978 changed basic aspects of economic and social life in China's villages and cities and altered the nature of the rural-urban relationship. But some important institutions and practices have changed only marginally or not at all, and China is still sharply divided into rural and urban castes with different rights and opportunities in life, resulting in growing social tensions.The contributors, many of whom conducted extensive fieldwork, examine the historical background of rural–urban relations; the size and trend in the income gap between rural and urban residents in recent years; aspects of inequality apart from income (access to education and medical care, the digital divide, housing quality and location); experiences of discrimination, particularly among urban migrants; and conceptual and policy debates in China regarding the status and treatment of rural residents and urban migrants