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The Struggle across the Taiwan Strait: The Divided China Problem
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The Struggle Across the Taiwan Strait: The Divided China Problem, by Ramon H. Myers and Jialin Zhang. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2006. xii +168 pp. US$15.00 (paperback).
This is a poor book that claims to analyze the divide across the Taiwan Strait. Rather, it simply gives the perspectives of the Chinese side and could have been as easily published in Beijing as in Stanford, California. Its one possibly useful attribute is that it gives China's "feelings" and responses to various situations that have arisen over the years.
The unremitting, underlying theme is that Taiwan is Chinese. The book argues that the division between Mainlanders and Taiwanese "did not …
