Whither Taiwan and Mainland China – National Identity, the State, and Intellectuals

Zhidong Hao is associate professor in the Department of Sociology, the University of Macau.

Hao Zhidong has provided essential background on the types of thinking that could create a unified island-mainland polity. Do the politicians in Beijing and Taipei want one enough to make the symbolic sacrifices that would be needed to bring their citizens peace with prosperity? The thinkers whom Hao analyzes in this book can show them ways to do this. -- Lynn White, Princeton University