Enmeshed in a civil war between the Nationalists and the Communists for control of China, Chiang's government mostly ignored Taiwan until 1949, when the Communists won control of the mainland. That year, Chiang's Nationalists fled to Taiwan and established a government-in-exile.
Introduction to Sovereignty: A Case Study of Taiwan
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education
Stanford University published 2004 (160 pages)