Research Catalog

Title

China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Inc. / Willem van Kemenade ; translated from the Dutch by Diane Webb.

Author

Kemenade, Willem van.

Publication

New York : Knopf, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

Webb, Diane.

Description

xiii, 444 pages : map; 25 cm

Subjects

• Chinese reunification question, 1949-
• Hong Kong (China)
• Taiwan
• China

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p.[405]-428) and index.

Contents

• Pt. 1. Anatomy of the Three Systems. 1. China: From Maoist Stalinism to "Market Socialism" 2. Hong Kong: From British Crown Colony to Special Administrative Region of China. 3. Taiwan: From "Republic of China" to De Facto Island State -- Pt. 2. Integration of the Three Systems, the Creation of New Hong Kongs, and the Erosion of Communism. 4. Origin of the Formula "One Country-Two Systems" 5. The Special Economic Zones and the Reopening of the Old "Treaty Ports" 6. Shenzhen and "Greater Hong Kong" 7. Hainan: China's "New Hong Kong Plus Taiwan" 8. Xiamen: Taiwan's Great Leap to the Mainland -- Pt. 3. Economic Hypergrowth Versus Political Stagnation. 9. Political Reforms, 1981-86: Labyrinth Without Exit. 10. Bourgeois Liberalization and a Neoauthoritarian Alternative. 11. Tiananmen: Requiem for the Democratic Forces -- Pt. 4. Regionalism Versus Centralism, Interdependence, and Transnationalism. 12. The Central-Regional Swing of the Pendulum in Historical Perspective.
• 13. Guangdong: The Fifth Tiger Within China's "Cage"? 14. Shanghai: Bastion of Central Control. 15. Northeast China and the Greater Northeast Asian Economic Sphere. 16. Xinjiang and the Islamic World -- Pt. 5. The Search for a New System. 17. The Dawn of the Post-Deng Era. 18. The Three Neo's: Neonationalism, Neo-Confucianism, Neoauthoritarianism. 19. Democracy with Chinese Characteristics? Note on the Spelling of Chinese Names.

ISBN

0679454845 :

OCLC

ocm37106624

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries