|aWhy Taiwan? :|bgeostrategic rationales for China's territorial integrity /|cAlan M. Wachman.
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|aStanford, Calif. :|bStanford University Press,|cc2007.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-241) and index.
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|aReframing the cross-strait dispute: geography and the strategic salience of Taiwan -- The people's Republic of Qing? -- Shifting salience (I): from Nationalist indifference to geostrategic imperative -- Shifting salience (II): from CCP indifference to instrumental indignation -- Shifting salience (III): from Civil War to Cold War -- Taiwan in the "imagined geography" of the PRC -- Why Taiwan? The great confluence.