Taiwan
Subtitle: a New history
By: Murray A. Rubinstein, ed.
Contributors: Rubinstein, Murray A., 1942-
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe; Routledge
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 520
Subjects: Taiwan -- History.; Taiwan -- Politics and government -- 1945-; Taiwan -- Civilization.
Description: "Collectively, the chapters bring the reader from the geographical and climatological context, through the stages of premodern history and the coming of the Chinese and the West, through the Japanese occupation, to a modern polity that has just recently experienced democratic elections and ominous military threats from its powerful neighbor, China."--Cover.
Notes: "An East gate book."
Includes index.