…Following the general line of psychological approach to political behavior, Professor shih strives to analyze Chinese response to reform, identity, national unification, and foreign policy not from the obvious external factors affecting policy crises and outcomes but from the internal psychic need of the Chinese caught in the process of drastic political change. …Advancing the dichotomous concepts of “progressionist” and “conditionist,” Shih presents a general paradigm to interpret the complicated and often contradictory responses of Chinese political leaders and intellectuals toward issues such as political reform, modernization, unification, and western intrusion and assistance. The result is a stimulating collection of new and insightful interpretations and prescriptions. …Professor Shih is a serious political scientist with a fiercely independent mind. …The essays in this book testify to his effort and contribution in his regard.

Yung Wei
Professor and President of VIPS

The author teaches Chinese politics, gender politics and political psychology at National Taiwan University. He has published and edited 40 books, 7 of them are in English, including Collective Democracy (Hong Kong), The Spirit of Chinese Foreign Policy (London), State and Society in China’s Political Economy (Boulder), Feminist Critique of Political Science (Taipei), and so on.

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