¡E The first part gives the general regional characteristics resulting from Taiwan¡¦s political economy in 1980s-2008. The two chapters illustrate the economic and the political spatial consequences of the cross-strait effects.
¡E The second part reviews the key factor for the evolutionary changes in Taiwan¡¦s production regions, with a chapter each on the historical and present regional formation.
¡E The third part explores two state supported industries - the well-established information and communication technology industry and the emerging software industry.
¡E The fourth part examines the cross-strait production region formation of two un-assisted industries - the bicycle industry and the Mandarin pop music industry.
¡E The fifth part investigates an industry and one region, both of which are little affected by the cross-strait effects. A rural district of hosiery production and the Eastern Taiwan region resists cross-strait migration, but for different reasons.

This book gives an up-to-date insider's reports and commentary and seeks explanations beyond the rationale of globalization alone. Taiwan's cases of industrial global expansion provide a greater vista to our understanding of industrial strategies and production networks. By expanding the scope of research, it exposes the nuances of Taiwan¡¦s industrial restructuring and network coordination, the how and why they differ from each other.

Introduction: Globalization, Cross-strait Political Economy and Post-Development State Intervention in Taiwan's Industrial Regionalization
Reginald Yin-Wang KWOK

PART I: POLITICAL ECONOMY AND REGIONAL SPECIALIZATION IN TAIWAN

Chapter 1: Globalization and the State: Effects on Regional Specialization
Tsu-Lung CHOU and Te-Chuan LI

Chapter 2: Contention in Regional Government: Impact on Domestic Production Specialization
Tsu-Lung CHOU and Shin-Ying TSAI

PART II: KEY DETERMINANT FOR REGIONAL FORMATION

Chapter 3: Cross-strait and Internal Migration: Key Factors for Traditional Regional Formation
Ji-Ping LIN

Chapter 4: The Cross-strait Effects: Differential Regional Industrial Clusters
Chia-Ho CHING and Tsu-Lung CHOU

PART III: STATE ENDORSED KEY INDUSTRIES

Chapter 5: Information and Communication Technology Industry: Rival Sates vs. Integrated Economies
Jenn-Hwan WANG

Chapter 6: Software Industry: Integrating with the Global Networks
Chia-Ho CHING

PART IV: UNASSISTED PRIVATE INDUSTRIES

Chapter 7: Bicycle Dual-track Industrial Regions: Reformation of a Traditional Industry
Yu-Chun LIN

Chapter 8: Mandarin Pop Music Industrial Region: Contradictory State and Latent Cross-strait Organization
Jung-Ying CHANG

PART V: MARGINALIZED PRODUCTION AND REGION

Chapter 9: Shetou Hosiery District: Subsistent and Repositioning Strategies
Jinn-Yuh HSU, Chu-Joe HSIA and Le-Xin LIN

Chapter 10: Regional Marginalization of Eastern Taiwan: Interior Dependency, Geographical Imagination, and Civic Development
Li-Ming HSIA, Yi-Fong CHEN and Ethan YORGSON

Postscript: Recent Regional Strategies and Future Prospect
Reginald Yin-Wang KWOK