| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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Shih-shan Henry Tsai. Lee Teng-hui and Taiwan's Quest for Identity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. Pp. xviii, 271. $65.00.
Biography has returned to Taiwan Studies, as Shih-shan Henry Tsai's balanced, sensitive and elegantly written account of the life and times of the Republic of China's former president Lee Teng-hui clearly demonstrates. This fine work can be added to the list of recent and very important books that include Jay Taylor's clear-eyed and balanced study of Chiang Ching-kuo, The Generalissimo's Son: Chiang Ching-Kuo and the Revolutions in China and Taiwan (2001), Hoyt Tillman's translation and framing of the Taiwanese magnate Chin-Ching Huang's Business As a Vocation: The Autobiography of Wu Ho-Su (2002), and Sophia Wang's close-to-the-subject portrait of the architect of the Taiwan's modern-day development, K. T. Li and the Taiwan Experience (2005).	1
Tsai charts out Lee's life within the larger context of Taiwan's dramatic history, a history that began when the island was a colony of the Dutch East India Company (the VOC). It is now the last bastion of the state that calls itself the Republic of China. Tsai has a solid command of time and place and also a certain pride in his homeland, as well as academic and family connections to it. This deep sense of Taiwan's history as part of his personal experience is an important element in the book.	. . .

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