Between Assimilation and Independence: The Taiwanese Encounter Nationalist China, 1945-1950

by Steven Phillips

Taiwan's relationship with mainland China is one of the most fraught in East Asia, a key issue in the island's domestic politics, and a major obstacle in Sino-American relations. Between Assimilation and Independence explores the roots of this conflict in the immediate postwar period, when the Nationalist government led by Jiang Jieshi took control of the island after fifty years of Japanese rule. It is the first in-depth examination of how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804744572
• ISBN13: 9780804744577
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"