Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. 1 Introduction 1
6. 2 Reframing the Cross-Strait Dispute: Geography and the Strategic Salience of Taiwan 25
7. 3 The People's Republic of Qing? 45
8. 4 Shifting Salience (I) From Nationalist Indifference to Geostrategic Imperative 69
9. 5 Shifting Salience (II) From CCP Indifference to Instrumental Indignation 82
10. 6 Shifting Salience (Ill) From Civil War to Cold War 100
11. 7 Taiwan in the "Imagined Geography" of the PRC 118
12. 8 Why Taiwan? The Great Confluence 153
13. Notes 165
14. Glossary 213
15. Works Cited 217
16. Index 243