Taiwan: a place with its own flag currency government and military but which most of the
world does not recognise as a sovereign country. An island that China regards as a 'rebellious
province' but which has managed to survive defiantly for decades. Now with its neighbour China
a major power on the world stage and ally United States looking increasingly inward Taiwan's
position has never been more precarious. Kerry Brown and Kalley Wu Tzu-hui reveal how the
island's shifting fortunes have been shaped by centuries of conquest and by a cast of dynamic
characters by Cold War intrigue and the rise of its neighbour as a global power explaining
how this tiny island caught between the agendas of two superpowers is attempting to find its
place in a rapidly changing world order.
