The Trouble with Taiwan: History, the United States and a Rising China

By Kerry Brown and Kalley Wu Tzu Hui

Book Overview

Taiwan: a place with its own flag, currency, government and military, but which most of the world does not recognise as a sovereign country. An island that China regards as a 'rebellious province', but which has managed to survive defiantly for decades. Now with its neighbour China a major power on the world stage and ally United States looking increasingly inward, Taiwan's position has never been more precarious.

Kerry Brown and Kalley Wu Tzu-hui reveal how the island's shifting fortunes have been shaped by centuries of conquest and by a cast of dynamic characters, by Cold War intrigue and the rise of its neighbour as a global power, explaining how this tiny island, caught between the agendas of two superpowers, is attempting to find its place in a rapidly changing world order.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 135036388X
• ISBN13: 9781350363885
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"