Gunter Schubert (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan,

Increasingly overshadowed by China, whose long-term objective for Taiwan is well known, Taiwanese are striving hard to find a balance between safeguarding Taiwan’s sovereignty and normalising cross-Strait relations. Accordingly, politics is always thick in the air, present in many aspects of daily life in Taiwan, and at the heart of both social and personal issues. Political issues are the toughest to deal with and will most likely remain unresolved in the near term. In view of that, it is mo..