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In Making China Modernized: Comparative Modernization Between Mainland China And Taiwan, Wen-Hui Tsai

Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies

The first edition of In Making China Modernized: Comparative Modernization between Mainland China and Taiwan was written and completed in the early 1990s at a time when hostilities between both sides of the Taiwan Strait had begun to diminish through increasing people-to-people and cultural contacts. A lot has been happening since the publication of the first edition, however, and in March of 1996, mainland China and Taiwan became the foci of world attention. Headlines on the worldwide news media and global communication networks reported a growing tension between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, with all eyes on the …