1st Edition
Taiwan and Chinese Nationalism National Identity and Status in International Society
By Christopher Hughes
Copyright 1997
208 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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For China, Taiwan is next in line to be unified with the People's Republic after Hong Kong in 1997. China's claim on Taiwan is of great importance to the politics of Chinese Nationalism, and is central to the dynamics of power in this most volatile of regions. The democratic challenge from Taiwan is very potent and its status and identity within the international community is crucial to its... Read more
Chapter 1 Taiwan in Chinese nationalism; Chapter 2 The crisis of Chinese nationalism in Taiwan; Chapter 3 Stretching the one-China principle; Chapter 4 National identity and democratisation; Chapter 5 Forging a post-nationalist identity; Chapter 6 Taiwan's intermediate state; Chapter 7 Conclusion;
Biography
Christopher Hughes is a lecturere in Chinese Politics and History at Middlesex University
' ... an excellent, theoretically based, history of the development of Chinese and Taiwanese nationalism and their interaction.' - NOD and Conversion, Newsletter of the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute
