Shelley Rigger discusses "Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse."


Monday, October 24

Shelley Rigger is the Brown Professor of East Asian Politics and Chair of Political Science at Davidson College in North Carolina. She is the author of Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse (Rowman and Littlefield, 2011) as well as two books on Taiwan’s domestic politics, Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy (Routledge 1999) and From Opposition to Power: Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (Lynne Rienner Publishers 2001). Her current research studies the effects of cross-strait economic interactions on Taiwan people’s perceptions of Mainland China.
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