From Democratic Movement to Bourgeois Democracy: The Internal Politics of the Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party in 1991

Taiwan is awash with money. It has the highest foreign currency reserves in the world per capita. Its GNP per capita is soaring and may soon surpass U.S. $10,000; it is the Taiwan miracle, proof of the export industrialization strategy. ¹ It is also a bustling, internationalized economy laid haphazardly upon the remnants of an agricultural society of personalistic loyalties.