Mobile Horizons

Acknowledgments — vii
Introduction: Of War and Peace: History and Perspectives — 1
Wen-hsin Yeh

1. What Drives the Cross-Strait Rapprochement? Political Competition, Globalization, and the Strategic Triangle — 25

   Yu-shan Wu and Lowell Dittmer

2. Redefining “China”: From the China Inside to the China Outside — 48
    Shelley Rigger

3. Shifting Frontiers: Cross-Strait Relations in the Context of Local Society — 74
    Michael Szonyi

4. Underground at Sea: Fishing and Smuggling across the Taiwan Strait, 1970s–1990s — 99
    Micah S. Muscolino

5. The Religious Dynamics of Region and Nation across the Strait — 124
    Robert P. Weller

6. Mobilizing Gender in Cross-Strait Marriages: Patrilineal Tensions, Care Work Expectations, and a Dependency Model of Marital Immigration — 147
    Sara L. Friedman

7. Global Business across the Taiwan Strait: The Case of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited — 178
    William C. Kirby

8. Taiwanese Newspapers and Politics in China’s Shadow — 208
    Timothy B. Weston

9. Complex Characters: Relearning Taiwan — 235
    Thomas B. Gold

10. A Quiet Revolution: Oppositional Politics and the Writing of Taiwanese History — 259
      Wen-hsin Yeh

Glossary — 287
Bibliography — 293
List of Contributors — 317
Index — 319