Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-364) and index. Translation of: Fragments d'une guerre inachevée : les entrepreneurs taiwanais et la partition de la Chine. Paris : Éditions Karthala, [2013].
Contents:
Preface to the English edition -- Glossary -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Preliminary notes. Romanization of Chinese characters ; Monetary units ; Components of the Taiwanese population ; Diplomatic partners of the Republic of China in 2012 -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : another history of the partition of China -- 1. The genesis of a Taiwanese entrepreneurship as a contingent product of the Chinese civil war -- Transformations in colonial legitimacy, Act I the inter-allied conferences (1843-1945), the permutation of Chinese and Japanese colonizers, Act II the 1947 massacre, the creation of a Communist problem ex nihilo, Act III the outbreak of the Korean War (1950), the perpetuation of a colonial configuration ; A war economy, An anti-capitalist ideology, The overlap of civil and military spheres, Diversion of reforms, Predation and payoffs ; The interstices of the colonial regime, The figures of the collaborator and the middleman, The twofold fragmentation of the productive sector, Spaces of prosperity : small atomized entrepreneurship and predatory local factions -- 2. A Thermidorian logic : the national defeat as a result of its ideological victory -- The nationalist Thermidorian moment : how economics re-legitimizes politics (evading politics I), The delegitimization of the Republic of China, Towards a developmental state?, Small and large family capital : the lack of a working class ; The communist Thermidorian moment, the delinking of economics and politics (evading politics II), The return of state capitalism, The internal colonization of special economic statuses ; Taiwan's democratization visited by the national counter-revolution, Nationalist decolonization, Collusion between politics and business, The partisan dialectics -- 3. Taiwanese entrepreneurs in China : Taishang (un)disciplined by a non-recognized border -- The emancipation of Taiwanese industry, From SMEs to high-tech industries : a legacy of the nationalist colonial economy, Bypassing anon-recognized border, evading politics (III) ; Investing the modes of government specific to china under reform, Making the most of the border, Between legal vacuum and preferential measures, Collusion between Taishang and local bureaucrats, Evading politics (IV) ; A liminal population, Foreigners of Chinese? The production of socio-economic differences, Modes of subjection to the one-China principle. 4. From economic capital to hegemonic capital : a long-distance colonialism ; The tension between two normative orders, The debate on the opening of the border : politicization of the economic sphere ; Depoliticization of politics, The actors of the opening-up : degovernmentalization and politicization, The Taishang impossible mediation (2000-2002), From fictitious privatization to formal privatization of bilateral negotiations, The breakthrough of the United Front policy ; Opening the border, hegemony and democracy, From politicization to regovernmentalization without recognition (evading politics V), Returning to politics : challenges to popular sovereignty and the rule of law -- Conclusion : from the sovereignty dispute to the dissensus on politics in China -- References -- Index.
Summary:
"The Republic of China that retreated to Taiwan in 1949 maintains its de facto, if not de jure, in- dependence yet Beijing has consistently refused formally to abandon the idea of reunifying Taiwan with China. As well as growing military pressure, the PRC's irredentist policy is premised on encouraging cross-Straits economic integration. Responding to preferential measures, Taiwanese industrialists have invested massively in the PRC, often relocating their businesses there. Fragments of a nation torn apart by contradictory claims, these entrepreneurs are vectors of a new form of unification imposed by the main- land, promoted but postponed on the island by the Nationalist Party, and rejected by Taiwanese pro-independence parties. Within what can be described as an unfinished civil war, socio-economic dynamics remain embedded in conflicts over sovereignty. Trans- national actors have freed themselves from security constraints, thereby benefiting economically from a reformist China, and ultimately restructuring politics in Taiwan itself, and, in so doing, relations between Beijing and Taipei. A fictitious depoliticization has governed the opening of the Sino-Taiwanese border in order to postpone any resolution of the sovereignty issue. Mengin's startlingly original book highlights the competing, and fragmented, elements within one of the world's most intractable territorial disputes."--Book cover flap.
Series:
CERI series in comparative politics and international studies
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