Dongtao Qi - Böcker

Qi provides a comprehensive exploration of the complex and evolving dynamics in and between Taiwan, China, and the United States from 2016 to 2024.Through three unique analytical perspectives – Movement Government and Movement Society, Cross-Strait Relations Trio, and Strategic Ambiguity – these chapters delve into 23 significant political, economic, and social developments that have shaped the Taiwan issue. It provides a broad spectrum of political, economic and social developments, extending beyond the first term of Tsai Ing-wen’s administration and provides valuable frameworks that extend beyond the Taiwan context, applicable to state-society relations in other countries and other geopolitical conflicts.An essential resource for academics, researchers and students in comparative politics, international relations, political sociology as well as policymakers and those interested in further understanding the East Asian geopolitics, the future of Taiwan–China–US relations and the evolving dynamics in East Asia.

As China has become the world's second largest economy and risen rapidly amid various internal and external challenges, its profound social transformation and changing social policies are seemingly receiving inadequate attention from both academic and policy communities, especially in the Xi Jinping era since 2013. After decades of development, new social values, behaviours and organisations have emerged in China. Social changes and unresolved social issues are demanding for policy attention and proper governance.This book studies the important aspects of China's social transformation, policy and governance in recent years, including social stability maintenance, education, social media, industrial de-capacity and lay-off campaign, ethnic minority and ethnic policy, elderly care, poverty reduction and social governance. It will enable readers to have a better understanding of China's most important and pressing social issues and relevant social policies.

This book is a study of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the Taiwan Independence Movement (TIM) and electoral politics in Taiwan during 2000-2012. It consists of two parts: the first part proposes a movement government framework to understand the fluctuating popular support for the DPP government during 2000-2008 when it was in power, and the second part includes a series of studies on the DPP's quick but limited revival during 2008-2012 when it was out of power. For the DPP in and out of power, its strategic relations with the TIM have either promoted or constrained popular support for the DPP under different circumstances. This book reviews the history of the TIM since 1945, its relations with the DPP since 1986, the DPP's strategies in dealing with the TIM, and explains how these strategies have significantly affected the size and composition of the DPP's support base since 2000 by analyzing rich survey data collected during 1996-2013. Theoretically, this book challenges the traditional dichotomous and overly structuralist understanding of state-movement relations; empirically, it provides both qualitative and quantitative analysis of Taiwan's major political and social events since 2000, such as presidential and legislative elections, and rise of Taiwanese nationalism.