Robert Ash is Chiang Ching-kuo Professor of Taiwan Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, where he taught in the Department of Economics since 1975. Peter Ferdinand has BA and DPhil degrees from Oxford and an MSc (Economics) from the London School of Economics. Brian Hook is currently an Emeritus Leverhulme Fellow, Visiting Professor at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hull, Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong. Robin Porter holds BA and MA degrees in International Relations and in Chinese Hist...