8 sources cited across the Taiwan corpus — aggregated from all document Primary Sources Consulted blocks, deduplicated by title prefix.
This document is a synthesis of secondary-source bibliography. The works enumerated in §§2–8 below constitute the canon. The document's analytical contribution is the organisation, the inter-author commentary on contested readings (with attention to the cross-Strait-framing axis between independence-leaning and reunification-leaning readings), and the identification of open questions.
The bibliographic frame is built from:
The cumulative bibliographies of the principal Taiwan-studies surveys — Roy (*Taiwan: A Political History* 2003), Rigger (*Why Taiwan Matters* 2011, *The Tiger Leading the Dragon* 2021), Bush (*Difficult Choices* 2021) — checked against each other for canon convergence.
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) East Asia section's *Journal of Asian Studies* and the *China Quarterly* and *Asian Survey* review essays from 2010–2024.
The Brookings Institution's John L. Thornton China Center, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Taiwan-related programmes (the *China Power Project* under Bonnie S. Glaser through 2021 and subsequently the German Marshall Fund Indo-Pacific programme), the Project 2049 Institute, and the German Marshall Fund Indo-Pacific publication archives.
The Academia Sinica (Taipei), the National Cheng Chi University, the National Taiwan University Institute of Political Science, and the Institute for National Defense and Security Research (INDSR) publication archives — the principal Taiwanese-academic institutions.
The Hoover Institution Taiwan Studies programme outputs, particularly under Larry Diamond's analytical lead, and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) David Sacks essay archive.
Where this document quotes specific assessments of a work's canonical position, those assessments are attributed by name to the reviewer or surveyor concerned.