Table of Contents

List of Contributors, Acknowledgement, Introduction, 1. The Republic of China: How the British were outmanoeuvred in diplomacy over the question of Tibet by B R Deepak, The Republic of India and the Republic of China: 1947-1949 47 by B R Deepak, India's National leaders and the Nationalist China by B R Deepak, Chiang Kai-shek and the China-Burma-India Theatre of War by Lin Hsiao-chen, Paying Last Respects to Mahatma Gandhi by Luo Jialun (Tr. Prashant Kaushik), Testing the Limits of Pragmatic Diplomacy:Taiwan's Relations with India by Mumin Chen, From Benign Neglect to Pragmatism: The Political and Security Issues between Taiwan and India by Parris H. Chang, Experiences of Developmental State in India and Taiwan by Kalim Siddiqui, Exploring Education Cooperation between Taiwan and India: The Case of Mandarin Chinese Education by Yu-li TUNG, Taiwan Studies in India by Janardan Sahu, India and I by Victor Feng Da-Hsuan, Index

About the Author

D P Tripathi is the Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha). He is also the General Secretary and chief spokesman of the Nationalist Congress Party, and member the Consultative Committee of the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India and the Standing Committee on External Affairs of the Parliament. B R Deepak is Professor of Chinese and China Studies at the Centre for Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He specializes in Chinese civilization, contemporary China, India-China relations, China's relations with its neighbors and major powers. He also has interest in Chinese classical literature and has translated the Analects of Confucius into Hindi recently.