Fragments of an Unfinished War: Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and the Partition of China (The Ceri Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies) - Hardcover

Mengin, Fran�oise

9780190264055: Fragments of an Unfinished War: Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and the Partition of China (The Ceri Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0190264055 ISBN 13: 9780190264055

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2015

The Republic of China that retreated to Taiwan in 1949 maintains its de facto, if not de jure, in- dependence yet Beijing has consistently refused formally to abandon the idea of reunifying Taiwan with China. As well as growing military pressure, the PRC's irredentist policy is premised on encouraging cross-Straits economic integration. Responding to preferential measures, Taiwanese industrialists have invested massively in the PRC, often relocating their businesses there. Fragments of a nation torn apart by contradictory claims, these entrepreneurs are vectors of a new form of unification imposed by the main- land, promoted but postponed on the island by the Nationalist Party, and rejected by Taiwanese pro-independence parties.
Within what can be described as an unfinished civil war, socio-economic dynamics remain embedded in conflicts over sovereignty. Trans- national actors have freed themselves from security constraints, thereby benefiting economically from a reformist China, and ultimately restructuring politics in Taiwan itself, and, in so doing, relations between Beijing and Taipei. A fictitious depoliticization has governed the opening of the Sino-Taiwanese border in order to postpone any resolution of the sovereignty issue. Mengin's startlingly original book highlights the competing, and fragmented, elements within one of the world's most intractable territorial disputes.

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About the Author:

Fran�oise Mengin, Senior Research Fellow at CERI/ Sciences Po, Paris, has spent most of her research career examining the relationship of Taiwan within 'Greater China', especially from the perspective of state formation. Her publications include Trajectoires chi- noises: Taiwan, Hong Kong et P�kin, Cyber-China and Politics in China: Moving Frontiers.

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