This book examines the transformation of socioeconomic relations between Taiwan and China as the Taiwanese economy has become more deeply integrated into the Greater China region. Specifically, it focuses on how the rise of China in recent decades has altered the socioeconomic power relations across the region, and the impact of the huge flow of people from Taiwan and Hong Kong to China. The book is divided into three sections: 'production', which examines how investments from Taiwan to China have transformed production networks; 'community and daily life', which explores the impact of cross...

China's transformation from a poor and underdeveloped country into a global market power has profoundly altered its socioeconomic power relations with the other countries in the Greater China region, namely, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Indeed, this economic shift has resulted in the massive flow of capital and people from Taiwan as well as Hong Kong to China, to seek business opportunities and new lifestyles. These flows have in turn completely transformed longstanding borderlines in the region.

This book examines the transformation of Taiwan and Hong Kong's socioeconomic relationships...