1. Dr. Tse-Kang Leng is Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. The author wishes to extend his gratitude to Professor Brantly Womack at the University of Virginia for his comments and encouragement. Research for this article was supported by the Overseas Research Grant (38050F, 1999-2000) and Research Project Grant (NSC89-2414-H-004-032) from the National Science Council, R.O.C., and Travel Grant from the Institute of International Relations of National Chengchi University. Part of the research was conducted during the author's tenure as a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University from 1999-2000. The author would like to register his appreciation to Professor Ramon Myers for his kind help. Special thanks should be extended to Mr. Yang Jian at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences for his assistance during field research in Shanghai. An earlier draft of this article was presented at the 30th Sino-American Conference on Contemporary China organized by the University of California, San Diego, May 2001.
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4. 1 For more complete discussions on the transformation of state sovereignty and institutions in the era of globalization, see Stephen D. Krasner, "Sovereignty," Foreign Policy, 122 (January/February 2001), pp. 20-29; Stephen D. Krasner, Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999); Miles Kahler, "Information Networks and Global Politics," in Christoph Engel and Kenneth Keller, eds., Understanding the Impact of Global Networks on Local Social, Political, and Cultural Values (Baden-Baden, Germany: Nomos, 2000); Warren Magnussen, The Search for Political Space: Globalization, Social Movement, and the Urban Political Experiences (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996).
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