Between Assimilation and Independence: The Taiwanese Encounter Nationalist China, 1945-1950

Political reform on Taiwan in the 1980s enabled Chinese-language scholars to begin examining complex and sensitive issues which were not previously acceptable for research; such topics are now being investigated also by English-speaking academics. Phillips (history, Towson U.) contributes one such English-language work, exploring the Taiwanese elite's interaction with the Chinese Nationalist government between 1945 and 1950. He analyzes the ways in which a small group of prominent Taiwanese promoted local self-government—rejecting both independence and complete assimilation with China—as a means of protecting themselves from a war-torn China ruled by a collapsing Nationalist government. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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