Written by an impressive line up of contributors, this book analyzes Taiwan’s economic and political achievements, and asks whether it is possible to identify through the experience of a single nation – Taiwan – the makings of a replicable model.

1. Economic Life in Mainland China and Taiwan and the Rise of a Productive Market Economy 2. Taiwan’s Success and Vulnerability: Lessons for the 21st Century 3. Taiwan’s Development Experience: Stability with Growth, 1950-2002 4. Can the ‘Taiwan Model’ of Growth with Equity be Replicated in the South East Asian Context? 5. Comparative Productivity Performance in Manufacturing between Taiwan and Mainland China, 1961-1997 6. Taiwan’s Knowledge Based Economy: A Historical Perspective on Higher Education, Manpower Planning and Economic Development 7. Re-Engineering the Developmental State in an Age of Globalization: Taiwan’s Quest for High-Tech Industries 8. Democratisation in a Chinese Community: Lessons from Taiwan 9. Democratic Transition and the Rule of Law in Taiwan: A Development Model for the Third World? 10. Constitutional Developments in Taiwan and Democratisation of the Republic of China: A Model or a Precedent for the People’s Republic of China? 11. A Tocquevillian Process: Taiwan’s Democratisation and its Paradoxical Foundations 12. Is the Party Over? Taiwan’s KMT from Power to Opposition 13. What is Taiwan? Implications for International Society