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Fragments of an Unfinished War : Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and the Partition of China, Hardback Book

Fragments of an Unfinished War : Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and the Partition of China Hardback

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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 depolitisation 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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