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He is editor in chief of the journal Asian Survey and the author of Sino- Soviet Normalization and Its International Implications, China’s Quest for National Identity, China Under Modernization, and South Asia’s Nuclear Crisis.01eng32023User DefinedHistory12Taiwan Strait12integration12three links12Taishang12five no’s12strategic ambiguity121992 consensus01010302China’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 island’s 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 détente 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. “Provides essential background for an understanding of both why the issues between Taiwan and China remain difficult to resolve and why that lack of resolution poses a potential threat to peace in the western Pacific area.” STEVEN GOLDSTEIN, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University LOWELL DITTMER is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is editor in chief of the journal Asian Survey and the author of Sino-Soviet Normalization and Its International Implications, China’s Quest for National Identity, China Under Modernization, and South Asia’s Nuclear Crisis.0202China’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 island’s 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 détente 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. “Provides essential background for an understanding of both why the issues between Taiwan and China remain difficult to resolve and why that lack of resolution poses a potential threat to peace in the western Pacific area.” STEVEN GOLDSTEIN, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University LOWELL DITTMER is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is editor in chief of the journal Asian Survey and the author of Sino-Soviet Normalization and Its International Implications, China’s Quest for National Identity, China Under Modernization, and South Asia’s Nuclear Crisis.04Introduction Taiwan’s National Identity and Cross-Strait Relations Changing Identities in Taiwan under Ma Ying-jeou Mingling but Not Merging: Changes and Continuities in the Identity of Taiwanese in Mainland China Chinese National Identity under Reconstruction Chinese Youth Nationalism in a Pressure Cooker Varieties of State Capitalism across the Taiwan Strait: A Comparison and Its Implications The Nature and Trend of Taiwanese Investment in China (1991–2014): Business Orientation, Profit Seeking, and Depoliticization Cross-Strait Economic Relations and China’s Rise: The Case of the IT Sector Social Entrepreneurialism and Social Media in Post–developmental state Taiwan Pivot, Hedger, or Partner: Strategies of Lesser Powers Caught between Hegemons A Farewell to Arms? US Security Relations with Taiwan and the Prospects for Stability in the Taiwan Strait Xi Jinping’s Taiwan Policy: Boxing Taiwan In with the One-China Framework Strategies of China’s Expansion and Taiwan’s Survival in Southeast Asia: A Comparative Perspective Taiwan and the Waning Dream of Reunification46http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/47Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC-BY-NC-ND)040301https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-ucp/files/media/cover_images/2b3baa14-c169-4059-87fb-290850fd9526.jpgUniversity of California Press01University of California Press01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://www.luminosoa.org02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://www.luminosoa.org/books/e/10.1525/luminos.38California0420171003026in030.8in081.00089866948lb019in1315978-0-520-96870-71315978-0-520-96870-71315978-0-520-96870-7ucp-43-e-15-978-0-520-96870-70301Ubiquity Press15978-0-520-96870-70610.1525/luminos.3801internal-reference43DGE201029<TitleType>01</TitleType><TitleText textcase="02">Taiwan and China</TitleText><Subtitle>Fitful Embrace</Subtitle>01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://www.luminosoa.org02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://www.luminosoa.org/books/e/10.1525/luminos.381B01Lowell DittmerLowellDittmerPolitical Science University of California, BerkeleyLOWELL DITTMER is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is editor in chief of the journal Asian Survey and the author of Sino- Soviet Normalization and Its International Implications, China’s Quest for National Identity, China Under Modernization, and South Asia’s Nuclear Crisis.01eng32023User DefinedHistory12Taiwan Strait12integration12three links12Taishang12five no’s12strategic ambiguity121992 consensus01010302China’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 island’s 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 détente 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. “Provides essential background for an understanding of both why the issues between Taiwan and China remain difficult to resolve and why that lack of resolution poses a potential threat to peace in the western Pacific area.” STEVEN GOLDSTEIN, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University LOWELL DITTMER is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is editor in chief of the journal Asian Survey and the author of Sino-Soviet Normalization and Its International Implications, China’s Quest for National Identity, China Under Modernization, and South Asia’s Nuclear Crisis.0202China’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 island’s 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 détente 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. “Provides essential background for an understanding of both why the issues between Taiwan and China remain difficult to resolve and why that lack of resolution poses a potential threat to peace in the western Pacific area.” STEVEN GOLDSTEIN, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University LOWELL DITTMER is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is editor in chief of the journal Asian Survey and the author of Sino-Soviet Normalization and Its International Implications, China’s Quest for National Identity, China Under Modernization, and South Asia’s Nuclear Crisis.04Introduction Taiwan’s National Identity and Cross-Strait Relations Changing Identities in Taiwan under Ma Ying-jeou Mingling but Not Merging: Changes and Continuities in the Identity of Taiwanese in Mainland China Chinese National Identity under Reconstruction Chinese Youth Nationalism in a Pressure Cooker Varieties of State Capitalism across the Taiwan Strait: A Comparison and Its Implications The Nature and Trend of Taiwanese Investment in China (1991–2014): Business Orientation, Profit Seeking, and Depoliticization Cross-Strait Economic Relations and China’s Rise: The Case of the IT Sector Social Entrepreneurialism and Social Media in Post–developmental state Taiwan Pivot, Hedger, or Partner: Strategies of Lesser Powers Caught between Hegemons A Farewell to Arms? US Security Relations with Taiwan and the Prospects for Stability in the Taiwan Strait Xi Jinping’s Taiwan Policy: Boxing Taiwan In with the One-China Framework Strategies of China’s Expansion and Taiwan’s Survival in Southeast Asia: A Comparative Perspective Taiwan and the Waning Dream of Reunification46http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/47Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC-BY-NC-ND)040301https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-ucp/files/media/cover_images/2b3baa14-c169-4059-87fb-290850fd9526.jpgUniversity of California Press01University of California Press01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://www.luminosoa.org02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://www.luminosoa.org/books/e/10.1525/luminos.38California04201710030615978-0-520-29598-8ucp-43-e-15-978-0-520-96870-70301Ubiquity Press15978-0-520-96870-70610.1525/luminos.3801internal-reference43DGE201002<TitleType>01</TitleType><TitleText textcase="02">Taiwan and China</TitleText><Subtitle>Fitful Embrace</Subtitle>01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://www.luminosoa.org02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://www.luminosoa.org/books/e/10.1525/luminos.381B01Lowell DittmerLowellDittmerPolitical Science University of California, BerkeleyLOWELL DITTMER is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is editor in chief of the journal Asian Survey and the author of Sino- Soviet Normalization and Its International Implications, China’s Quest for National Identity, China Under Modernization, and South Asia’s Nuclear Crisis.01eng32023User DefinedHistory12Taiwan Strait12integration12three links12Taishang12five no’s12strategic ambiguity121992 consensus01010302China’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 island’s 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 détente 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. “Provides essential background for an understanding of both why the issues between Taiwan and China remain difficult to resolve and why that lack of resolution poses a potential threat to peace in the western Pacific area.” STEVEN GOLDSTEIN, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University LOWELL DITTMER is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is editor in chief of the journal Asian Survey and the author of Sino-Soviet Normalization and Its International Implications, China’s Quest for National Identity, China Under Modernization, and South Asia’s Nuclear Crisis.0202China’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 island’s 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 détente 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. “Provides essential background for an understanding of both why the issues between Taiwan and China remain difficult to resolve and why that lack of resolution poses a potential threat to peace in the western Pacific area.” STEVEN GOLDSTEIN, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University LOWELL DITTMER is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is editor in chief of the journal Asian Survey and the author of Sino-Soviet Normalization and Its International Implications, China’s Quest for National Identity, China Under Modernization, and South Asia’s Nuclear Crisis.04Introduction Taiwan’s National Identity and Cross-Strait Relations Changing Identities in Taiwan under Ma Ying-jeou Mingling but Not Merging: Changes and Continuities in the Identity of Taiwanese in Mainland China Chinese National Identity under Reconstruction Chinese Youth Nationalism in a Pressure Cooker Varieties of State Capitalism across the Taiwan Strait: A Comparison and Its Implications The Nature and Trend of Taiwanese Investment in China (1991–2014): Business Orientation, Profit Seeking, and Depoliticization Cross-Strait Economic Relations and China’s Rise: The Case of the IT Sector Social Entrepreneurialism and Social Media in Post–developmental state Taiwan Pivot, Hedger, or Partner: Strategies of Lesser Powers Caught between Hegemons A Farewell to Arms? US Security Relations with Taiwan and the Prospects for Stability in the Taiwan Strait Xi Jinping’s Taiwan Policy: Boxing Taiwan In with the One-China Framework Strategies of China’s Expansion and Taiwan’s Survival in Southeast Asia: A Comparative Perspective Taiwan and the Waning Dream of Reunification46http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/47Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC-BY-NC-ND)040301https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-ucp/files/media/cover_images/2b3baa14-c169-4059-87fb-290850fd9526.jpgUniversity of California Press01University of California Press01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://www.luminosoa.org02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://www.luminosoa.org/books/e/10.1525/luminos.38California04201710030615978-0-520-29598-8ucp-43-e-15-978-0-520-96870-70301Ubiquity Press15978-0-520-96870-70610.1525/luminos.3801internal-reference43DGE201022<TitleType>01</TitleType><TitleText textcase="02">Taiwan and China</TitleText><Subtitle>Fitful Embrace</Subtitle>01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://www.luminosoa.org02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://www.luminosoa.org/books/e/10.1525/luminos.381B01Lowell DittmerLowellDittmerPolitical Science University of California, BerkeleyLOWELL DITTMER is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is editor in chief of the journal Asian Survey and the author of Sino- Soviet Normalization and Its International Implications, China’s Quest for National Identity, China Under Modernization, and South Asia’s Nuclear Crisis.01eng32023User DefinedHistory12Taiwan Strait12integration12three links12Taishang12five no’s12strategic ambiguity121992 consensus01010302China’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 island’s 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 détente 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. “Provides essential background for an understanding of both why the issues between Taiwan and China remain difficult to resolve and why that lack of resolution poses a potential threat to peace in the western Pacific area.” STEVEN GOLDSTEIN, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University LOWELL DITTMER is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is editor in chief of the journal Asian Survey and the author of Sino-Soviet Normalization and Its International Implications, China’s Quest for National Identity, China Under Modernization, and South Asia’s Nuclear Crisis.0202China’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 island’s 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 détente 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. “Provides essential background for an understanding of both why the issues between Taiwan and China remain difficult to resolve and why that lack of resolution poses a potential threat to peace in the western Pacific area.” STEVEN GOLDSTEIN, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University LOWELL DITTMER is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is editor in chief of the journal Asian Survey and the author of Sino-Soviet Normalization and Its International Implications, China’s Quest for National Identity, China Under Modernization, and South Asia’s Nuclear Crisis.04Introduction Taiwan’s National Identity and Cross-Strait Relations Changing Identities in Taiwan under Ma Ying-jeou Mingling but Not Merging: Changes and Continuities in the Identity of Taiwanese in Mainland China Chinese National Identity under Reconstruction Chinese Youth Nationalism in a Pressure Cooker Varieties of State Capitalism across the Taiwan Strait: A Comparison and Its Implications The Nature and Trend of Taiwanese Investment in China (1991–2014): Business Orientation, Profit Seeking, and Depoliticization Cross-Strait Economic Relations and China’s Rise: The Case of the IT Sector Social Entrepreneurialism and Social Media in Post–developmental state Taiwan Pivot, Hedger, or Partner: Strategies of Lesser Powers Caught between Hegemons A Farewell to Arms? US Security Relations with Taiwan and the Prospects for Stability in the Taiwan Strait Xi Jinping’s Taiwan Policy: Boxing Taiwan In with the One-China Framework Strategies of China’s Expansion and Taiwan’s Survival in Southeast Asia: A Comparative Perspective Taiwan and the Waning Dream of Reunification46http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/47Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC-BY-NC-ND)040301https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-ucp/files/media/cover_images/2b3baa14-c169-4059-87fb-290850fd9526.jpgUniversity of California Press01University of California Press01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://www.luminosoa.org02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://www.luminosoa.org/books/e/10.1525/luminos.38California04201710030615978-0-520-29598-8