Thinking of the Republic of China

The Republic of China is the first state in Chinese history established on the concept of popular sovereignty, and it is also the first state in Taiwan's history to effectively exercise sovereignty internationally in the name of the country. With 1949 as the dividing line, the Republic of China in its two stages exhibits both a continuity of ideals and a complex history of twists and turns due to the complex relationship between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait over the past century and ideological differences.

“Rethinking the Republic of China” argues from the perspective of modernization and transformation that the Republic of China is an integration of Chinese and Western modernization models. It echoes the calls of Confucian scholars such as Wang Yangming, Huang Zongxi, and Wang Chuanshan, and at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, it integrated the democratic system concepts brought by the surging Western tide, forming the first democratic system in national history. This book also interprets the internal developmental relationship between Taiwan and the Republic of China from the perspectives of "geopolitics of local conditions" and "inherent cross-strait nature," not only inheriting the spirit of the contemporary New Confucian manifesto but also reflecting the views of citizens of the Republic of China based in Taiwan.