Treading a Fine Line: Democratisation and the Media in Taiwan

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Rawnsley, Gary D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0442291634     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsh017     Document Type: Review

References (3)

1. The Republic of China refers to the political system that governs Taiwan and, until recently claimed sovereignty over the territory of the People's Republic of China. Taiwan referred to the island itself, a contested terrain that governments on both sides of the Taiwan Strait agreed was a province of China. However, it is now more usual to refer simply to Taiwan.
2. The main ethnic division is between 'mainlanders' (those who retreated to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT after 1949 following the Communist victory) and 'Taiwanese' (ethnically Chinese whose families had migrated to the island since the seventeenth Century). This division is not clear-cut, however, nor does it account for the aboriginal population that were the first inhabitants of the island.
3. T. Bellows, 'The March 1996 Elections in the Republic of China', American Journal of Chinese Studies, 1997.