PETER CHOW is a Professor of Economics at The City College and Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA.

• Foreword; Robert A.Scalapino PART I: INTRODUCTION The Myth and Reality of One China; Peter C.Y. Chow PART II: HISTORICAL LEGACIES AND TAIWAN'S STATEHOOD The Myth of One China; Edward L.Dreyer Taiwan's Colonial History and Post-Colonial Nationalism; J.Bruce Jacobs On the Statehood of Taiwan: A Legal Reappraisal; Huang-Chih Chiang & Jau-Yuan Hwang The Statehood of Taiwan: A Strange Case of Domestic Strength and International Challenge; Cal Clark PART III: TAIWAN IDENTITY AMID THE RISING CHINA National Identity, Ethnic Identity, and Party Identity in Taiwan; Chang Yuan Tsai National Identity, International Image, and a Security Dilemma: The Case of Taiwan; Hans Stockton Ethnic and Civic Nationalism: Two Roads to the Formation of a Taiwanese Nation; Shiau-Chi Shen &  Naiteh Wu PART IV: THE DILEMMA OF 'ONE CHINA' POLICY Triangulating the Status Quo: Content and Consequences of PRC, U.S. and Taiwan Stances on Taiwan's Current Status; Jacques deLisle The Impacts of Europe's 'One China' on Taiwan; Edward Friedman Taiwan's Cross Strait Policy Under Democratic Progressive Party; I-Chung Lai Nixon and Taiwan: The Failure of A Policy and Its Aftermath; Athur Waldron Hu Jintao, George W. Bush, Chen Shui-Bian and the New Taiwan Triangle; Lowell Ditmer Strategic Dilemma of Beijing's Taiwan Policy: Nationalism and the Making of the Anti-Secession Law; Suisheng Zhao PART V: NATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENSE STRATEGY A National Defense Strategy for Taiwan in the New Century; Alexander C. Huang A New Imbalance in the Equation of Military Balance across the Taiwan Strait; York Chen 'One China' and The Military Balance on the Taiwan Strait; Richard D. Fisher, Jr. Japan and the Security of the Taiwan Strait; June Tefuel Dreyer