Politics of Identities and the Making of the ‘Greater China’ Subregion in the Post-Cold War Era

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The ‘Greater China’ subregion (that is, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southern China) which provides my focus below differs from the other subregions analyzed in this collection. Some of the latter have a long history or, at least, an institutional and organizational infrastructure that gives them a certain path-dependent solidity and coherence. The ‘Greater China’ subregion, for all that it has an invented history provided by the People’s Republic of China (PRC), is a recent product of largely bottom-up exchanges among economic and social actors from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and southern China. To the extent that it is now gaining institutional shape, it is in the form of network-like patterns which are partly influenced by path-shaping struggles around the politics of identity and the reimagination of the subregion.KeywordsForeign Direct InvestmentDemocratic Progressive PartyWorld OrderSpecial Economic ZoneMost Favour NationThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.