YCW LN: Book Club
The Trouble with Taiwan: History, the United States, and a Rising China by Kerry Brown and Kalley Wu Tzu Hui
• Date: Wednesday 20 March 2024
• Arrival time: 6:00pm / Book Club start time: 6:15pm
• Venue: Old China Hand, 8 Tysoe St, London EC1R 4RQ
• RSVP required: RSVP here
Join the London Young China Watchers community for the launch of our next Book Club for 2024. This month’s pick is The Trouble with Taiwan by Kerry Brown and Kalley Wu Tzu Hui. Don’t worry if you don’t manage to finish it by 20th March – if you’re interested, we would love to see you there! The Club is very relaxed and welcomes new and existing YCW members.
Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions.
by Kerry Brown and Kalley Wu Yzu Hui
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.