1st Edition

Taiwan in the Era of Tsai Ing-wen Changes and Challenges

Edited By June Teufel Dreyer, Jacques deLisle Copyright 2021
334 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

334 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

334 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book assesses the forces that led to the election of Tsai Ing-wen and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in 2016 and re-election in 2020, and provides the first comprehensive treatment of this pivotal period in Taiwan’s politics, policy, and international relations. The Democratic Progressive Party’s victory in Taiwan’s 2016 presidential and legislative elections marked several... Read more

1. Introduction: Change, Continuity and Challenges for Taiwan in the Tsai Era

Jacques deLisle and June Teufel Dreyer

2. Elections and the Challenges of Governing in Taiwan Under Tsai

Richard C. Bush

3. Kuomintang Agonistes: Party Politics in Taiwan

Shelley Rigger

4. Taiwan’s Need for New Attitudes, Aims, and Actions to Further Economic Growth

Pochih Chen

5. Taiwan in International Economic Relations

Peter C.Y. Chow

6. Constructive Build-up of Taiwan’s Defense

York W. Chen

7. Cross-Strait Relations under the Tsai Administration

L.C. Russell Hsiao and H.H. Michael Hsiao

8. U.S.-Taiwan Relations: Do Past Patterns Persist in the Tsai Era?

Vincent Wei-cheng Wang and Jacques deLisle

9. Taiwan-Japanese Relations in the Tsai Era

June Teufel Dreyer

10. Taiwan’s Quest for International Space in the Tsai Era: Adapting Old Strategies to New Circumstances

Jacques deLisle

11. Taiwan’s Culture Wars from "Re-China-ization" to "Taiwan-ization" and Beyond: Tsai’s Cultural Policy in Long-Term Perspective

Fang-long Shih

Biography

June Teufel Dreyer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami, USA and a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, USA. She is also the author of China’s Political System: Modernization and Tradition, 10th Edition (Routledge, 2019) and Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun (2017).

Jacques deLisle is Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania, USA and Director of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, USA. He is co-editor of Taiwan under Ma Ying-jeou (Routledge, 2014) and China’s Global Engagement (2017).