Book excerpt: Canadian and US China scholars examine American-Chinese relations and the Taiwan question, 21st-century Taiwan culture as internationalization with local characteristics, the evolution of social welfare programs in Taiwan and the new administration, the Military Dependent Village generation in the 2000's, Taiwanese sovereignty re-interpreted in light of the relations across the Taiwan Strait, significant paradoxes in contemporary Chinese Communist theoretical discourse, the transformation of local culture in Taiwan's search for democratization, and the prospects of Taiwan's bipolar multiparty system. The text is double spaced. There is no index. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).