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Social Forces in the Re-Making of Cross-Strait Relations: Hegemony and Social Movements in Taiwan

Social Forces in the Re-Making of Cross-Strait Relations: Hegemony and Social Movements in Taiwan

Beckershoff, André

Paperback

Series: Routledge Research on Taiwan

EconomicsAnthropologyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1032498048
ISBN13: 9781032498041
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 18 2024
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Adopting a critical political economy perspective this book sheds new light on the social and political struggles that shaped the political dynamics of Taiwan-China relations and cross-Strait rapprochement between 2008 and 2014.

Presenting a careful analysis of primary sources and interviews, the book reconstructs the historical, political and socio-economic factors that shaped Taiwan's path to the Sunflower Movement of 2014, reinterpreting this process as a struggle over Taiwan's role in the global economy. It challenges received wisdoms regarding the rise and fall of the rapprochement: First, the study argues that the rapprochement was not primarily driven by political elites but by capitalist conglomerates within Taiwan, which sought a normalisation of economic relations across the Taiwan Strait. Second, it finds that Taiwan's social movements during that period were not homogeneous but rather struggled to find a common vision that could unite the critics of the rapprochement.

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