Overview
"By examining the way the ruling Nationalist Party (KMT) dominated Taiwan's three mainstream television stations before the introduction of political reform in the mid-1980s, the book provides an insightful investigation of both political power and emancipation." "This new approach challenges many accepted assumptions about Taiwan's political development, such as the sacrifice of democracy for stability and wealth and recognizes that threats to society often originate within the state itself, rather than from external forces. However, the development of public television also broadened the political agenda, allowing the Taiwanese population to express its will through collective activities and to exercise the power of (civil) society. Taiwan is an exciting case study with which to explore the post-Cold War understanding of Critical Security. A fascinating look at one of the world's most rapidly developing nations, this book makes a striking contribution to a fresh area of political thought."--BOOK JACKET.Synopsis
"By examining the way the ruling Nationalist Party (KMT) dominated Taiwan's three mainstream television stations before the introduction of political reform in the mid-1980s, the book provides an insightful investigation of both political power and emancipation." "This new approach challenges many accepted assumptions about Taiwan's political development, such as the sacrifice of democracy for stability and wealth and recognizes that threats to society often originate within the state itself, rather than from external forces. However, the development of public television also broadened the political agenda, allowing the Taiwanese population to express its will through collective activities and to exercise the power of (civil) society. Taiwan is an exciting case study with which to explore the post-Cold War understanding of Critical Security. A fascinating look at one of the world's most rapidly developing nations, this book makes a striking contribution to a fresh area of political thought."--BOOK JACKET.
Booknews
Finding Taiwan to be one of the most complex and atypical examples of transition from authoritarianism, Gary (politics) and Ming-yeh (Asia-Pacific studies) (both U. of Nottingham) hypothesize that the media provide a useful measure of either the presence or the lack of democracy. They explore the role the media have played in the conception of security in the country and in the practice of making it secure, and how it has been used by political authorities to transmit their idea of how Taiwan might be made more secure from interference by the Chinese in Beijing. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)