Taiwan Gets it Right

Issue Date January 1999
Volume 10
Issue 1
Page Numbers 166-68
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Review of The First Chinese Democracy: Political Life in the Republic of China on Taiwan, by Chao, Linda and Myers, Ramon H.

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Lucian Pye is Ford Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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