them with office and honors, and this remains an important political system
difference.
ENDNOTES
- Lieberthal, Kenneth (1995), Governing China: From Revolution Through Reform, New
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tation under ‘socialist reform’: the case of water pollution management in the People’s
Republic of China’, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, PhD dissertation. - Personal interview with veteran NGO activist, Beijing, 23 June, 2004.
- Saich, Tony (2000), Governance and Politics of China, New York: Palgrave, p. 213.
- Personal interview with research center economist, Beijing, 30 June, 2004.
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Environment and Planning, 36 , 176. - For a discussion of KMT alliances with local factions, see Liao, Chung-chun (1997), The
Formation and Development of Local Factions in Taiwan(in Chinese), Taipei: Yu Chen
Publisher; and Chen, Ming-tong (1995), Factional Politics and Taiwan’s Political Transition
(in Chinese), Taipei: Yueh Dan. - Tang and Tang (2004), op cit, n. 7, p. 181.
- Ibid.
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environmental movement, 1993-1999’, paper presented to the Workshop of Organization,
Identity, and Social Movement, Academic Sinica, 21 June. - See http://www.earthisland.org/project/genPage2.cfm?generalID=97&pageID=143&
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Taiwan’, http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~ccheng/chikuhp/level2/wetlands.html. - The endangered bird breeds on islets near the Korean Peninsula and winters in places
ranging from Japan and China to Taiwan and Vietnam. On average, about 600 black-faced
spoonbills migrate to Qigu each year. - http://tean.formosa.org/campaign/wetland/index.html.
- Hancock, J.A., J.A. Kushlan and M.P. Kahl (1992), Storks, Ibises, and Spoonbills of the
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- Hsieh, Zhicheng (2004), ‘An environmental history of the Binnan Project’, unpublished
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- Hsieh, p. 31.
- Chiu Yu-tzu (1999), ‘Rare birds at stake as spotlight turns to environmental impact
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- Hsieh, p. 93.
- Sue Lin (2000), ‘Binnan industrial site must be scrutinized’, Taipei Times, 3 May, p. 8.
- Taiwan, Environmental Protection Agency.
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