The rapid growth of Taiwan's postwar "miracle" economy is most
frequently credited to the leading role of the state in promoting
economic development. Megan Greene challenges this standard
interpretation in the first in-depth examination of the origins of
Taiwan's developmental state.
Greene examines the ways in which the Guomindang state planned
and promoted scientific and technical development both in mainland
China between 1927 and 1949 and on Taiwan after 1949. Using
industrial science policy as a lens, she shows that the state, even
during its most authoritarian periods, did not function as a
monolithic entity. State planners were concerned with maximizing
the use of Taiwan's limited resources for industrial development.
Political leaders, on the other hand, were most concerned with the
state's political survival. The developmental state emerged
gradually as a result of the combined efforts of technocrats and
outsiders, including academicians and foreign advisors. Only when
the political leadership put its authority and weight behind the
vision of these early planners did Taiwan's developmental state
fully come into being.
In Taiwan's combination of technocratic expertise and political
authoritarianism lie implications for our understanding of changes
taking place in mainland China today.
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