The struggle across the Taiwan strait : the divided China problem / Ramon H. Myers and Jialin Zhang.

A concise and informative history of how China divided in 1949 into two regimes, why they struggled to achieve the same political goal-reunification of China, and why their struggle today continues in a more complex and dangerous way. The authors detail how the changes brought about by the 2000 elec...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Myers, Ramon Hawley, 1929-2015
Other Authors: Zhang, Jialin, 1933-
Other title:Divided China problem.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, ©2006.
Series:Hoover Institution Press publication ; 542.
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Table of Contents:
  • China divides into two rival regimes
  • The move toward détente
  • Détente and its collapse
  • The challenge of Taiwan independence
  • Taiwan's economic slowdown and growing integration with mainland China
  • The watershed elections of 2004 and aftermath
  • Conclusion: divided China's continuing struggle.