Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors to this Volume
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Who are We? Identity in Transition
- 2 Taiwan: Yearning for an Identity
- 3 The Implications of Direct Flights: Beijing in Taiwanese Politics
- 4 Kuomintang, Democratization and the One-China Principle
- 5 The Deepening and Consolidation of Democracy in Taiwan
- 6 India and Taiwan: Bolstering Complementarity in Information Technology
- 7 Asian Regional Economic Integration and Taiwan–India Economic Relations
- 8 The Taiwan Factor in Sino–Indian Relations
- 9 Japan's Triumphant Diplomacy in Taiwan in 1874
- 10 A Study of the Cultural and Educational Exchanges between Taiwan and India, 1995–2006
- 11 Between Two Worlds: A Survey of Education in Taiwan
- 12 Female Immigrants, Social Capital and Public Sphere in Taiwan
- 13 Information Technology and Gender: Taiwan and India
- 14 Tzu Chi: A Case Study of Engaged Buddhism in Taiwan
- 15 Master Hsing Yun of Fo Guang Shan and the Development of Humanistic Buddhism
- 16 The Heritage and Innovation of Chan Paintings in Taiwan
- 17 Taiwan in World Architecture: A Historical Perspective
- Afterword
Foreword
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors to this Volume
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Who are We? Identity in Transition
- 2 Taiwan: Yearning for an Identity
- 3 The Implications of Direct Flights: Beijing in Taiwanese Politics
- 4 Kuomintang, Democratization and the One-China Principle
- 5 The Deepening and Consolidation of Democracy in Taiwan
- 6 India and Taiwan: Bolstering Complementarity in Information Technology
- 7 Asian Regional Economic Integration and Taiwan–India Economic Relations
- 8 The Taiwan Factor in Sino–Indian Relations
- 9 Japan's Triumphant Diplomacy in Taiwan in 1874
- 10 A Study of the Cultural and Educational Exchanges between Taiwan and India, 1995–2006
- 11 Between Two Worlds: A Survey of Education in Taiwan
- 12 Female Immigrants, Social Capital and Public Sphere in Taiwan
- 13 Information Technology and Gender: Taiwan and India
- 14 Tzu Chi: A Case Study of Engaged Buddhism in Taiwan
- 15 Master Hsing Yun of Fo Guang Shan and the Development of Humanistic Buddhism
- 16 The Heritage and Innovation of Chan Paintings in Taiwan
- 17 Taiwan in World Architecture: A Historical Perspective
- Afterword
Summary
I seek your indulgence by beginning on a personal note. I had the pleasure of heading India's non-official representation in Taiwan for three years (2000–03). Amazing as it may seem, I could not find a book on Taiwan in the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi or Ministry of External Affairs libraries and except for Ambassador Vinod Khanna, my predecessor in Taiwan, I could not find an individual who was particularly interested in or closely following events in Taiwan. Thus, I left for this new assignment only dimly aware of the fascinating and dangerous complexities of the Taiwan issue. It turned out to be one of the more educative and instructive tenures of my Foreign Service career. In the period since then, from a virtually non-existent base, there has been a very welcome increase in interaction between Taiwanese scholars and strategic experts and India's strategic community. As India's involvement with the Asia-Pacific region deepens and expands, it is important that the Indian academia too takes a proactive interest in expanding consciousness of the enormous significance of the Taiwan issue in the country at large. Therefore, this conference with the theme ‘Taiwan Today’ organized by the Department of East Asian Studies of the University of Delhi is a timely and important initiative to help further enhance interest amongst the Indian student body in the Taiwan issue.
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- Taiwan Today , pp. xiii - xxviPublisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2010