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January 1980 Issue
January 1980 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Taiwan: An Unmarried Country
    Denis Warner
  • Bigger Than Politics
    Thomas Griffith
  • Why Almost Everyone Is Wrong About Gold
    Charles A. Cerami
  • Letter to a Dead Artist
    Frances Lindley
  • A Wig
    Bernard Malamud
  • Great Moments in American Journalism (Or, the Sorrows of Gin)
    Ward Just

Taiwan: An Unmarried Country

A year after U.S. recognition of Communist China, Taiwan is going its independent and prosperous way.

By Denis Warner
January 1980 Issue
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