Wei-chin Lee, Ph.D. (1986), Oregon, is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he teaches international relations and Chinese politics. In addition to a book on Taiwan, his publications have appeared in various journals including Asian Affairs, Asian Perspective, World Affairs and Studies in Comparative Communism.

'Anyone even remotely interested in the Taiwan experience will have to take this book and its conclusions in consideration.' Dennis Hickey.

• Introduction, Wei Chin LeeDemocracy as Hegemony, Globalization as Indigenization, or the “Culture” in Taiwanese National Politics, Allen ChunEast Asian Culture and Democratic Transition, With Special Reference to the Case of Taiwan, John Fuh-Sheng HsiehThe Role of Political Imprisonment in Developing and Enhancing Political Leadership: A Comparative Study of South Africa’s and Taiwan’s Democratization, Fran Buntman and Tong-yi HuangWhat if We Don’t Party? Political Partisanship in Taiwan and korea in the 1990s, Alexander C. Tan, Karl Ho, Kyung-tue Kang and Tsung-chi YuTaiwan’s Distorted Democracy in Comparative Perspective, Cheng-tian KuoPolitics of Foreign Labor Policy in Taiwan, Chien-yi LuThe Political Economy of Taiwan’s Relations with Malaysia: Opportunities and Challenges, Samuel C. Y. Ku“One China, One Taiwan”: An Analysis of the Democratic Progressive Party’s China Policy, T.Y. WangTaiwan: Parent, Province, or Blackballed State?, Alan M. WachmanContributorsEpilogueIndex