Description: Why has Taiwan spent more than three decades pouring capital and talent into China? Going beyond the received wisdom of the "China miracle" and "Taiwan factor," Wu Jieh-min's award-winning Rival Partners shows how Taiwan benefits from partnering with its political archrival and helps to cultivate a global economic superpower.
Brief description: Elizabeth J. Perry is Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute.
Review Quotes: Rival Partners is a major contribution to the study of Chinese development and global capitalism. Weaving together rich materials on Taiwanese manufacturers, local Chinese officials, and migrant labor, Wu details how China's export manufacturing model thrived and unraveled, leading to today's crisis and transformation. It is a meticulous study of the rent-seeking and developmental dual characters of the Chinese state.--Ho-fung Hung, author of The China Boom