By 1965, as Mr. Rusher recounts in his introduction, the Republic of China had found its place in the sun: 16 years after Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists were driven off the Mainland by Mao Tse-tung's Communists, the ROC had prospered to the point where it was removed from the list of developing nations. Then the clouds rolled in: in 1971 Taiwan was expelled from the United Nations in favor of Peking; in 1978 the Carter Administration withdrew diplomatic recognition. But instead of collapsing, Taiwan, as Mr. Buckley puts it, "became stronger and stronger, more and more powerful, more and more attractive." This show is an often moving account of how Taiwan reached the point where, as Mr. Chien puts it, "No longer are we talking about mutual defense treaties; no longer are we talking about political alliances; we are talking about trade, investment, environmental protection, technological transfers. In all these fields the Republic of China is a country to be reckoned with."