More previous reading and links

trying to think back over the disordered and semi-ordered reading and sources that I've looked at over the last year and trying to retrace them.

Read Henry Kissinger's On China over the summer. Some interesting insights into how Chinese policy elites work but most of this was written by his minion researchers. Some useful sources in footnotes, though.

The name Harrison keeps popping into my mind and I came across these interesting thoughts on Taiwan. It's this, though, Harrison, M (2006), Legitimacy, Meaning and Knowledge in the Making of Taiwanese Identity, that is the source. There are more comments on it here and here

Dawley's (2009) article in the China Quarterly provides a useful overview of post-2000 scholarship on Taiwan identity, but points out that it is too heavily influenced by the Taiwan independence debate and literary sources

Surfing around through Google and Kent library archives for journal articles that I've looked at. Must become more familiar and comfortable with this.

The China Quarterly, Published by SOAS and most highly regarded journl in this field. Need to consult it regularly. I keep browsing through things like this and getting diverted (e.g. great article on Campus and Cyber racism and Chinese nationalism in current volume). How to stay focused AND widely read??????




Andrade's (2006) excellent e-book, How Taiwan Became Chinese and Jackson's (2004) article, Bridging the Gap towards a Realist-Constructivist Dialogue.
Wendt's seminal 1992 article, Anarchy Is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics. Jiang Ye's (2008) Humiliation, Realpolitik, Globalization and China’s Taiwan Policy provides a useful overview of the motivations behind China's policies.

SOAS summer school suggested I look at websites of bodies involved in Cross-Straits dialogue to see what I can glean about policy elites' unscripted views on Taiwanese identity. There are no transcripts of talks here and my request to MAC resulted in a reply that these were confidential.

The PRC and ROC bodies involved in Cross-Strait dialogue have websites. Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council has a useful English language site, as does the Straits Exchange Foundation, which acts under the auspices of MAC. The PRC counterpart, the Association for Relations across the Taiwan Straits, only has a Chinese language site.
A survey of the main diplomatic developments in US-PRC relations, edited by
Jeffrey T Richelson, provides a useful historical overview, while a 2002 brief for Congress on US-China relations can be found here. A more up-to-date 2011 US Congressional briefing paper by Shirley Kan on the evolution of the One-China Policy also provides an excellent and authoritative overview. An interesting Guardian report can be found here. Vigorous local commentary can be found in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post and in Taiwan's The China Post and The Taipei Times, while mainland China's People's Daily might also serve as a source for officially sanctioned commentary on Cross-Strait relations.

How to write a briefing note: here