Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-59). Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 1994. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Arizona, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 297-305).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins University, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, leaves 479-497).

Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1992. / Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of Sociology, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

The ascent of China to a global power status has created a new wave of theoretical discourse on what this means for the future of international relations. The general consensus on a unipolar order of international relations is slowly giving way to discourse. The time of polarity shift in the system is associated with a likely conflict between the descending hegemon and the ascending power (Snyder 2002; Mearsheimer 2010). This theoretical background suggest that in the future, we might witness a military conflict between the US and China. On the other side of the spectrum is a more optimistic view of China's rise, which emphasizes the role of economic interdependence and the extreme cost of any aggressive foreign policy that would escalate the conflict potential between China and the US (Ikenberry 2008; Kang 2007; Fravel 2010). This assumption of a future military conflict between the US and China is at the center of this research. In the following pages I will explore the idea of a military conflict between the US and China in an in-depth analysis of the most contested and conflict-prone issues between China and the US: the future of Taiwan and the Senkaku Island dispute.

This thesis is about Taiwan's balance of trade and economical and political factors that affect it. In the first chapter, I define balance of trade in general. Next part consists of characteristics of Taiwanese history and economy and after those I finally focus on Taiwan's balance of trade and its structure. In the final part I talk about free trade agreements and international organizations that Taiwan wants to be part of and whose main goals are to lift certain trade barriers. In the light of the above mentioned information I try to predict the future structure of Taiwan's balance of trade.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf [249]-266).

Thesis advisor: Rebecca Nedostup / Seeing as how the leadership of both the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China have claimed a sense of inheritance and legitimacy from the political philosophy of Sun Yat-sen, it seems a paradox how different the political situations are in their respective domains. It is the intent of this thesis to discern how prioritizing different elements of Sun Yat-sen's political theory resulted in divergent decisions made by the leaders of the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party, which in turn help explain conditions found in the Republic of China on Taiwan and the People's Republic of China. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2011. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: College Honors Program. / Discipline: History Honors Program. / Discipline: History.