Introduction - Another history of the partition of China 1. The genesis of a Taiwanese entrepreneurship as a contingent product of the Chinese civil war Transformations in colonial legitimacy Act I 'e" The inter-allied conferences (1943-1945): the permutation of Chinese and Japanese colonizers Act II 'e" The 1947 massacre: the creation of a Communist problem ex nihilo Act III 'e" The outbreak of the Korean War (1950): the perpetuation of a colonial configuration A war economy An anti-capitalist ideology The overlap of civil and military spheres Diversion of reforms Predation and payoffs The interstices of the colonial regime The figures of the collaborator and the middleman The twofold fragmentation of the productive sector Spaces of prosperity: small atomized entrepreneurship and predatory local factions 2. A Thermidorian logic: The Nationalist defeat as a result of its ideological victory The Nationalist Thermidorian moment: how economics re-legitimizes politics (evading politics I) The delegitimization of the Republic of China Towards a developmental state? Small and large family capital: the lack of a working class The Communist Thermidorian moment: the delinking of economics and politics (evading politics II) The return of state capitalism The internal colonization of special economic statuses Taiwan's democratization visited by the Nationalist counter-revolution Nationalist decolonization The collusion between politics and business The partisan dialectics 3. Taiwanese entrepreneurs in China, Taishang (un)disciplined by a non-recognized border The emancipation of Taiwanese industry From SMEs to high-tech industries: a legacy of the Nationalist colonial economy Bypassing a non-recognized border: evading politics (III) Investing the modes of government specific to China under reform Making the most of the border Between legal vacuum and preferential measures Collusion between Taishang and local bureaucrats Evading politics (IV) A liminal population Foreigners or Chinese? The production of socio-economic differences Modes of subjection to the one-China principle 4. From economic capital to hegemonic capital: A long-distance colonialism The tension between two normative orders The debate on the opening of the border: politicization of the economic sphere Depoliticization of politics The actors of the opening-up: degovernmentalization and politicization The Taishang's impossible mediation (2000-2002) From fictitious privatization to formal privatization of bilateral negotiations The breakthrough of the United Front Policy Opening the border: hegemony and democracy From politicization to regovernmentalization without recognition (evading politics V) Returning to politics: challenges to popular sovereignty and the rule of law Conclusion DL From the sovereignty dispute to the dissensus on politics in China.