Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgments VII
4. Transcription Conversion VIII
5. Acronyms X
6. 1. The Mainland China-Taiwan Dyad as a Research Program 1
7. Part 1. Patterns of Interaction
8. 2. Rivalry Between the ROC and the PRC: An Expected-Utility Theoretical Perspective 25
9. 3. The Mainland China-Taiwan Relationship: From Confrontation to Interdependence? 47
10. Part 2. The Impact of Domestic Factors on Interaction: Beijing to Taipei
11. 4. Beijing's Policy Toward Taiwan: An Elite Conflict Model 65
12. 5. Mainland China's Bargaining Tactics: Future Negotiations with Taipei 81
13. 6. The Making of Beijing's Taiwan Policy 97
14. 7. Economic Reform, Cross-Straits Relations, and the Politics of Issue Linkage 111
15. Part 3. The Impact of Domestic Factors on Interaction: Taipei to Beijing
16. 8. Chiefs, Staffers, Indians, and Others: How Was Taiwan's Mainland China Policy Made? 137
17. 9. The Political Economy of Taiwan's Investment in China 153
18. Part 4. External Environment and Interaction
19. 10. The Reluctant Dragon: Taiwan as a Psychological Factor in Mainland China's U.S. Policy 173
20. 11. An Evaluation of the Republic of China's Foreign Policy Alternatives 195
21. 12. The ROC-PRC Rivalry and International Relations Studies 213
22. Part 5. Inherited Rivalry: A Chronology 227
23. Appendix: Statistics on Taiwan and Mainland China 261
24. About the Contributors 265
25. Index 269
26. About the Book and the Editors 277