The explosive events in Tiananmen Square in 1989, the end of the Cold War, the fast-approaching reversion of Hong Kong to Chinese rule, and the transition to democracy in Taiwan have all raised many concerns about the future of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. This volume considers likely outcomes and related policy issues by drawing together scholars and analysts from the three portions of greater China and the United States. Together, they analyze domestic, political, economic, and social developments, as well as relevant trends in the Asian and global international arenas.
Zhiling Lin is a research associate in the Asian Studies Program at AEI. Thomas W. Robinson is president of American Asian Research Enterprises.
Table of Contents
Contributors
Preface
- Introduction
- Playing to the Provinces--Deng Xiaoping's Political Strategy of Economic Reform
- Party and Army in Chinese Politics--Neither Alliance Nor Opposition
- Marxism, Confucianism, and Cultural Nationalism
- The Size, Control, and Composition of China's Population
- Tradition, Modernist, and "Party" Culture in Contemporary Chinese Society
- Chinese Agriculture--Modernization, but at What Cost?
- The Retreat to Central Planning in China after Tiananmen
- Greater China and the Development of Science and Technology
- The Effects of Democratization, Unifications, and Elite Conflict on Taiwan's Future
- Toward Taiwan's Full Participation in the Global System
- Reconciling Confuciansim and Pluralism during the Transition of Taiwan's Society
- Hong Kong "Ungovernability" in the Twilight of Colonial Rule
- The Hong Kong Economy--to the 1997 Barrier and Beyond
- The Evolution of a Divided China
- Post-Cold War Security in the Asia-Pacific Region
- Changing Taiwan-China Relations
- The Chinese and Their Future
Notes
Index
Tables
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