Explores Taiwan's critical placein a rapidly changing world as a key flash-point between the United States and China
Taiwan is 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, explaining how this tiny island, caught between the agendas of two superpowers, is finding its place in a rapidly changing world order.
'Brown and Wu Tzu-hui help situate a Taiwan whose "place" in the world is otherwise plagued by uncertainty.'
