Product Description: This book tells the story of Taiwan’s economic revolution―how Taiwan transformed itself from a planned economy into a market economy between 1949 and 1965. The authors posit that it was the Kuomintang Government's endorsement of property rights reform and institutional change that enabled Taiwan to transform from an impoverished command economy to one of the fastest growing economies in the world...read more

Product Description: This volume presents correspondence exchanged from 1940 to 1943 between T. V. Soong and Chiang Kai-shek, two of the most important figures in modern Chinese history. Their telegrams during this critical period provide new understanding of the U...read more

Product Description: This collection of photographs—many taken from his personal family album—and other historical documents chronicle the life of one of the most influential political figures in modern Chinese history. From his birth and early life in Shanghai to his years on the world stage to his death in San Francisco in 1971, these photos shed new light on the life on the man who in his time was the face of modern China...read more

Product Description: Kuo and Myers discuss the strengths and weaknesses of American and Chinese research and propose how the internationalization of research on communist countries like China could be greatly improved in the future.