A very positive review of Chris Horton's new book about Taiwan, Ghost Nation

"...what elevates the book above policy commentary or journalistic chronicle is its insistence on treating Taiwan not merely as a geopolitical flashpoint, but as a living, breathing democracy with its own stories, contradictions, and ghosts."

https://topics.amcham.com.tw/2025/07/a-ghosted-taiwan-grapples-with-the-future-of-democracy/

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Michael Turton shows that the recall campaign in Taiwan is part of a long history of civil society resisting government misrule

"To understand how a campaign like this could organize itself with such effectiveness, it is important to situate public anger and public action in the centuries of resistance to external power that has deep, abiding roots in collective social action throughout the Qing, Japanese and KMT colonial periods."

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2025/07/14/2003840246

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