Cross-Taiwan Strait Relations in an Era of Technological Change: Security, Economic and Cultural Dimensions

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by  Paul Irwin Crookes, Jan Knoerich (eds.)

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Cross-Taiwan Strait
Relations in an Era of
Technological Change
Security, Economic and Cultural
Dimensions
Edited by
Paul Irwin Crookes
Lecturer in the International Relations of China, School of Interdisciplinary Area
Studies, University of Oxford, UK
Jan Knoerich
Lecturer in the Economy of China, Lau China Institute, King’s College London, UK
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Acknowledgements viii
Notes on Contributors ix
1 Cross-Taiwan Strait Relations in an Era of Technological 1
Change: Introduction
Elisabeth Forster and Jan Knoerich
2 Post-Election Cross-Strait Relations: High Hopes and Low 16
Expectations
Steven M. Goldstein
3 Technological Change and China’s Naval Modernization: 41
Security Implications for Taiwan
Elizabeth Freund Larus
4 Taiwanese Business in Mainland China: From Domination 61
to Marginalization?
Shelley Rigger
5 Do Mainland Chinese Firms Transform towards ‘Indigenous 77
Innovation’? The Paradox of Increasing Economic
Integration across the Taiwan Straits
Ching-Jung Tsai
6 The Role of High Technology in Mainland China’s 96
Outward Investment into Taiwan: Economic, Security
and Cultural Dimensions
Jan Knoerich
7 Cross-Strait Cyberspace: Between Public Sphere and 118
Nationalist Battleground
Jens Damm
8 From Politics to Culture: Taiwanization Discourses and 147
the Techno Nazha Performance
Fang-long Shih
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9 Bridging the Cultural Gap across the Taiwan Strait – 164
Lung Ying-tai and the Case of the Magazine Freezing Point
Kelvin Cheung
10 Technological Change and Cross-Strait Dynamics in the 178
21st Century
Paul Irwin Crookes
Index 191
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
3.1 Map of China’s first and second island chains of defence 44
3.2 China’s official defence budget (USD billion) 48
4.1 Taiwan’s annual trade with, and approved investment 62
in, mainland China (USD billion)
5.1 Global development and adoption of telecommunication 78
standards
5.2 Mainland China’s electronics imports (USD billion), 2010 84
6.1 Cross-Strait direct investment in an era of technological 100
change
6.2 Outward FDI from mainland China and Taiwan, 1982–2012 102
Tables
3.1 Comparison of total Chinese and US naval assets, 50
March 2014
3.2 Taiwan Strait military balance, naval forces, 2013 53
5.1 Chinese R&D expenditures, USD billion and ratio to 80
GDP (%), 2001–11
5.2 Mainland China’s top ten companies ranked by sales, 2008 81
5.3 China Mobile’s investment in the TD-SCDMA network 82
5.4 The market share of mainland China’s top ten handset 85
providers (3G), 2010
6.1 Mainland Chinese and foreign direct investment into 103
Taiwan between 2009 and June 2014
6.2 Number of sectors opened up to mainland Chinese 106
investments in three stages
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Acknowledgements
A number of people and organizations have given invaluable support
in bringing this book into being and we are most grateful to all of
them. In particular, we would like to extend our sincerest thanks to the
Taiwan Studies Programme and the Asian Studies Centre of St Antony’s
College, University of Oxford for their generous funding throughout
every stage in the development and preparation of this book. We are
especially grateful to Professor Rosemary Foot and Dr Faisal Devji at
St Antony’s College, whose enthusiastic support for the original idea of
this project and wise counsel on how to carry it through to fruition
were so helpful to us both.
We would also like to thank Elisabeth Forster, whose unstinting
effort and close attention to detail as our editorial assistant has done so
much to ensure the high quality of the final result.
Finally, we want to thank our contributors, whose research expertise
and unique insights have made the task of collating this edited volume
such a pleasurable learning experience.
Paul Irwin Crookes
Jan Knoerich
October 2014
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Notes on Contributors
Kelvin Cheung is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Asian
and Policy Studies, Hong Kong Institute of Education. He received his
PhD in Chinese politics at the University of Manchester. His researches
focus on Chinese nationalism, identity politics, cross-Strait relations
and political Confucianism. Currently, he is working on a book manu-
script that examines the role of nationalism in the political integration
of Greater China.
Jens Dammreceived his PhD from the Faculty of History and Cultural
Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, in 2004. He is also an Associate Fellow at
the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT) at
Tübingen University and a board member of the European Association
of Taiwan Studies (EATS). His research is mainly focused on discourses
on gender and ethnicity-related issues in Taiwan, Greater China includ-
ing the PRC, and on the impact of new communication technologies.
Elisabeth Forsteris Departmental Lecturer in Modern Chinese History
and Politics at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on
Chinese history in the early 20th century. She is particularly interested
in the nexus of academic discourses, media coverage and political
activism during China’s May Fourth and New Culture Movements, as
well as in subjective perceptions of Chinese-foreign interactions at the
time. She has recently published in the journal Frontiers of History in
China.
Steven M. Goldsteinis the Sophia Smith Professor of Government at
Smith College and the director of the Taiwan Studies Workshop at
Harvard University. He has been a visiting faculty member at the
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Columbia University. In
the spring of 2012 he was Van Beuren Chair Distinguished Visiting
Professor at the Naval War College. He has published on issues of
Chinese domestic and foreign policy and his current research focus is
on the relations between the mainland and Taiwan as well as the
evolution of U.S. -Taiwan relations.
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