Bücher von Murray A. Rubinstein

Examines the effects of the socio-economic post-war transformation on Taiwan's political system, environment, religious structures, the relationships between the sexes and the different ethnic populations. A complex revisionist portrait of the country emerges.

Presents the history of Taiwan. This work includes material on democratization, party politics, and the independence movement. It takes the reader from the geographical and climatological setting, through the stages of premodern history and contact with China and the West, through the Japanese occupation, to the establishment of a modern state.