Why Lee Teng-Hui? -- Taiwan: archipelago, colony, stateless nation -- Childhood: seeking a wider world -- War, marriage, and the Christian gospel -- The Cornell years: democracy experienced -- Politicizing a technocrat -- Goethe's Faust in Taiwan: transformed into a Zen-Christian governor -- Dismantling the party state: from liberalization to democracy -- Democracy in Taiwan -- Military and cross-strait strategy, 1991-2000 -- Inventing the "new" Taiwan -- Lee's stewardship of Taiwan: from one-party rule to democracy -- Why is Lee a statesman?.