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Mobile Horizons

Dynamics across the Taiwan Strait
by Wen-hsin Yeh (Editor)
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Price: $32.00 / £27.00
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher:
Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley
Imprint: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 344
ISBN: 9781557291585
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Series:
  • China Research Monograph
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About the Book

What is the Taiwan Strait and why does it matter? The contributors to this volume argue that cross-Strait issues are both pressing subjects in contemporary politics and opportunities to reveal new vistas of scholarship covering China-Taiwan studies. Their research examines the dynamics of cross-Strait exchanges in national, regional, local, and transnational contexts, engaging with the arenas of culture, society, economy, and politics. The actors in these essays range from coastal fishermen, mainland brides, local councilmen, religious pilgrims, revisionist historians, political activists, newspaper professionals, and American students to policy makers and billionaire executives.

About the Author

Wen-hsin Yeh is professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. She has served as the director of the Institute of East Asian Studies and the chair of the Center for Chinese Studies at Berkeley. She has edited and contributed to many IEAS publications, including Mobile Subjects; Mobile Horizons; History in Images; Cities in Motion; Empire, Nation, and Beyond; Cross-Cultural Readings of Chineseness; Landscape, Culture, and Space in Chinese Society; and Shanghai Sojourners. Education: B.A., History, National Taiwan University; M.A., History, University of Southern California; Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments — vii
Introduction: Of War and Peace: History and Perspectives — 1
Wen-hsin Yeh

1. What Drives the Cross-Strait Rapprochement? Political Competition, Globalization, and the Strategic Triangle — 25

   Yu-shan Wu and Lowell Dittmer

2. Redefining “China”: From the China Inside to the China Outside — 48
    Shelley Rigger

3. Shifting Frontiers: Cross-Strait Relations in the Context of Local Society — 74
    Michael Szonyi

4. Underground at Sea: Fishing and Smuggling across the Taiwan Strait, 1970s–1990s — 99
    Micah S. Muscolino

5. The Religious Dynamics of Region and Nation across the Strait — 124
    Robert P. Weller

6. Mobilizing Gender in Cross-Strait Marriages: Patrilineal Tensions, Care Work Expectations, and a Dependency Model of Marital Immigration — 147
    Sara L. Friedman

7. Global Business across the Taiwan Strait: The Case of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited — 178
    William C. Kirby

8. Taiwanese Newspapers and Politics in China’s Shadow — 208
    Timothy B. Weston

9. Complex Characters: Relearning Taiwan — 235
    Thomas B. Gold

10. A Quiet Revolution: Oppositional Politics and the Writing of Taiwanese History — 259
      Wen-hsin Yeh

Glossary — 287
Bibliography — 293
List of Contributors — 317
Index — 319

Reviews

"[T]his book exposes the role of non-state actors in, and the intercrossed, interwoven, multifaceted and evolving aspects of, cross-Strait relations. It will be a very useful work to graduate students, scholars, diplomats and businessmen studying or engaged in international relations, especially involving cross-Strait relations."—C.X. George Wei, University of Macau, Pacific Affairs 88, no. 4 (Dec 2015): 915-917.