Taiwan's Economic Transformation (Routledge Research on Taiwan Series)

This book tells the story of Taiwan’s economic revolution―how Taiwan transformed itself from a planned economy into a market economy between 1949 and 1965. The authors posit that it was the Kuomintang Government's endorsement of property rights reform and institutional change that enabled Taiwan to transform from an impoverished command economy to one of the fastest growing economies in the world. The book gives special attention to how a small group of political and economic leaders began adopting the new ideas and beliefs that created the vision that enabled them to embrace institutional and organizational innovations, actions which led to the formation of the new market economy. Using first-hand interview material with key government officials from the period, and analyses of hitherto unused Chinese-language archives including: the diaries of Chiang Kai-shek, Kuomintang party archives, and personal papers of Kuomintang leaders, as well as newspaper and journal articles published in Taiwan between 1949 and 1965, this book is both empirically rich, and gives the reader insights into Taiwan's developmental experience and the direction in which, under different circumstances, China's post-war expansion might have proceeded. Taiwan's Economic Transition will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the economic and political history and development of Taiwan. More broadly it will also appeal to scholars and students of China's historical and contemporary development, Asian economics, and Asian studies.

Myers, Ramon H.

Kuo, Tai-Chun

Reference

Routledge

The Chinese Peasant Economy: Agricultural Development in Hopei and Shantung 1890-1949

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

Harvard University Press

The First Chinese Democracy: Political Life in the Republic of China on Taiwan

The political transformation of Taiwan from an authoritarian regime into a democracy is one of the great political sagas of the 20th century. Defeated on the China mainland, the Kuomintang established a new polity on Taiwan that allowed for four remarkable patterns of political development. These patterns reflect a complex political process of behavioral and institutional change in which the key requisites for democracy now exist in Taiwan. Taiwan's history of citizen participation in direct elections, along with the political institutional changes narrated here by Chao and Myers, produced an unprecedented, peaceful political turn-over of power from the KMT ruling party to the DPP, or Democratic Progressive Party, in March 2000.

History

Chao, Linda

Asia

Johns Hopkins University Press

Topics in this volume include: posing the problem; Taiwan under Japanese rule; the establishment of nationalist rule; the uprising; the nationalist's response; and the nature and aftermath of the tragedy.

A Tragic Beginning: The Taiwan Uprising of February 28, 1947

Lai, Tse-han

Wei, Wou

Stanford University Press

Defending An Economic Superpower: Reassessing The U.s.-japan Security Alliance (WESTVIEW SPECIAL STUDIES ON EAST ASIA)

Kataoka, Tetsuya

Westview Press

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 election not only intensified the conflict between the regimes but locked both sides into a new contest that increased the probability of war rather than peace.

Struggle across the Taiwan Strait: The Divided China Problem (Hoover Institution Press Publication, 542) (Volume 542)

Zhang, Jialin

Hoover Institution Press

Understanding Communist China: Communist China Studies in the United States and the Republic of China, 1949-1978 (Hoover Institution Press Publication)

Kuo and Myers discuss the strengths and weaknesses of American and Chinese research and propose how the internationalization of research on communist countries like China could be greatly improved in the future.

This diary offers an important new perspective on the critical events leading to the end of the Chinese civil war. From September 1945 to April 1946, Chang Kia-ngau kept a daily log in the negotiations between Nationalist China and Soviet Union to recover Manchuria from Soviet military occupation. The diary reveals that the Russians actively sought Nationalist China's cooperation in rehabilitating and operating the huge industrial complex that the Japanese had built in Manchuria during the 1930s and 1940s. The Russians were willing to let Chiang Kai-shek's government take control over Manchuria if the Nationalists would pledge that only Russia would be able to exert foreign influence in Manchuria. Chang Kia-ngau's diary is an eyewitness account of how Manchuria, one of the world's greatest industrial sites, fell to the control of the Chinese Red Army and thus led to the communist victory over Chiang Kai-shek. This book will interest students of cold war rivalry, U.S. foreign policy, Soviet diplomacy, and Chinese history alike.

Last Chance in Manchuria: The Diary of Chang Kai-ngau (Hoover Institution Press Publication) (Volume 379)

Biographies & Memoirs

Gillin, Donald H.

Community & Culture

The authors of this volume illustrate the extraordinary success of the Taiwan Relations Act in contributing to regional security and a high level of economic and political stability in one of the world's most tactically unpredictable and volatile areas.

A Unique Relationship: The United States and the Republic of China under the Taiwan Relations Act (Hoover Institution Press Publication)

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