In the last decade of the twentieth century, the Republic of China on Taiwan became the first full-fledged multiparty democracy in Chinese history. The ongoing process of democratization has been accompanied by a growing feeling of Taiwanese identity...

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LINDA CHAO and RAMON H. MYERS The First Chinese Democracy: Political Life in the Republic of China on Taiwan Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998 372 pages, $45.00 This book is not a description of political life in Taiwan. It is not...

The burgeoning number of multinational corporations establishing manufacturing, research and development, and sales and distribution operations in China is not the first situation in which the outside world has shown a fascination with China. In fact, the world has been mesmerized with China...