Asian Affairs: An American Review, March 22nd, 1999
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 a history of the period of democratization. It is not a study of Taiwan politics. Rather it is an analysis-historical, political, and more--of the period, in slices of time, when Taiwan took critical steps to become a democracy.
Chao and Myers begin with the question, Why did the Republic of China (Taiwan) democratize, when the other Chinas (Hong Ko...
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