What is the Taiwan Strait and why does it matter? The contributors to this volume argue that cross-Strait issues are both pressing subjects in contemporary politics and opportunities to reveal new vistas of scholarship covering China-Taiwan studies. Their research examines the dynamics of cross-Strait exchanges in national regional local and transnational contexts engaging with the arenas of culture society economy and politics. The actors in these essays range from coastal fishermen mainland brides local councilmen religious pilgrims revisionist historians political activists newspaper professionals and American students to policy makers and billionaire executives.
Wen-hsin Yeh is professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. She has served as the director of the Institute of East Asian Studies and the chair of the Center for Chinese Studies at Berkeley. She has edited and contributed to many IEAS publications, including Mobile Subjects; Mobile Horizons; History in Images; Cities in Motion; Empire, Nation, and Beyond; Cross-Cultural Readings of Chineseness; Landscape, Culture, and Space in Chinese Society; and Shanghai Sojourners.
Education: B.A., History, National Taiwan University; M.A., History, University of Southern California; Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley
"[T]his book exposes the role of non-state actors in and the intercrossed interwoven multifaceted and evolving aspects of cross-Strait relations. It will be a very useful work to graduate students scholars diplomats and businessmen studying or engaged in international relations especially involving cross-Strait relations."—C.X. George Wei University of Macau Pacific Affairs 88 no. 4 (Dec 2015): 915-917.
344 pp.6 x 9
9781557291066$32.00|£27.00Paper
Nov 2013