A leading authority on Taiwan, Shelley Rigger is Brown Professor of Political Science at Davidson College in North Carolina. She earned a PhD in government from Harvard University and has been studying and visiting Taiwan for nearly four decades. She has been a visiting researcher at National Chengchi University in Taipei and a visiting professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. Her books include Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse, and she consults for the US government on East Asian national security issues.

• Preface: The Umbrella King Acknowledgments 1 How Mao’s China became the “Factory to the World” 2 Taiwan’s “Economic Miracle” 3 “Second Spring”: Taiwan’s Traditional Manufacturers Discover Mainland China 4 From SME to ODM: Taiwan’s Integration into Global Manufacturing Networks 5 The 1990s: From Umbrellas to iPhones 6 The Rise of the Red Supply Chain 7 “Borrowing a Boat to Go to Sea”: Taiwanese Business Practices in China 8 Affordable Luxury: Changing the Way China Eats (and More) 9 Beyond Business: How Taiwanese Are Reshaping Chinese Society 10 The End of an Era? References Index

Until now, the contributions by Taiwan to China’s economic, social, and cultural development have not received the attention they deserve. Most research about economic cooperation between these two countries concerns the political implications of their cooperation, investigating whether the integration of the two economies could narrow the political gap between them and eventually lead to unification. In her new book, Rigger argues that the main reason for once-poor, secretive, and isolated China to become the second most important economy in the world has been Taiwan…{T]his book traces the development of the economic relationship between Taiwan and China and explores how Taiwanese companies and their employees transformed Chinese business practices. It also explores the possibility that this transformation may have influenced Chinese consumer behavior toward philanthropy, religion, popular culture, and law. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates. General readers.