Changing Taiwanese Identities
The peoples of Taiwan have been influenced by many different indigenous cultures as well as cultures from migrations during the past centuries of the islands history. In the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries there has been considerable conflict over who Taiwanese are. The Chinese who fled the Chinese Communist Revolution established a colonial regime over native Taiwanese. With democratization, this has placed identity issues central among political issues facing Taiwans voters and elites. Despite Chinese Communist claims to Taiwan, within the island these identity conflicts have ameliorated in recent years as more and more people identify as Taiwanese.
This book addresses the question of how Taiwanese identities have changed historically and since democratization began in the late 1980s. It also examines the impact of this process on cross-strait relations between Taiwan and the Peoples Republic of China. The various contributors cover a range of topics including the waves of migration to Taiwan, changes of political regimes, generational differences, the media and social movements. Taken as a whole, this book presents a nuanced picture of the changing identities which exist in contemporary Taiwan.
J. Bruce Jacobs is Emeritus Professor of Asian Languages and Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His recent books on Taiwan include Local Politics in Rural Taiwan under Dictatorship and Democracy (Norwalk, CT: East-Bridge, 2008), Democratizing Taiwan (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012), and The Kaohsiung Incident in Taiwan and Memoirs of a Foreign Big Beard (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016). He has also edited the four-volume Critical Readings on China-Taiwan Relations (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014). His current project is A History of Taiwan.
Peter Kang is Professor, International Masters Program in Asia-Pacific Area Studies/Department of Taiwan and Regional Studies, National Donghwa University, Taiwan.
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Names: Jacobs, J. Bruce, editor. | Kang, Peter, editor.
Title: Changing Taiwanese identities / edited by J. Bruce Jacobs and
Peter Kang.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. |
Series: Routledge research on Taiwan ; 22
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Subjects: LCSH: National characteristics, Taiwanese. | Group identity
Taiwan. | NationalismTaiwan. | DemocratizationTaiwan.
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Wi-vun Taiffalo Chiung obtained his PhD degree in linguistics from the University of Texas at Arlington, USA. He is a professor in the Department of Taiwanese Literature at the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan. He is also the director of the Center for Taiwanese Languages Testing and the Center for Vietnamese Studies at NCKU. He has been a visiting scholar at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan. His publications include Nations, Mother Tongues and Phonemic Writing (NCKU 2011); Language, Literature, and Re-imagined Taiwanese Nation (NCKU 2007); Language, Identity and Decolonization (NCKU 2005).
Stphane Corcuff obtained his PhD in political science at Sciences Po in Paris. He is at present an associate professor of political science at Lyon University (Institute of Political Studies), researcher and director of the Taipei office of the French Center for the Study of Contemporary China. In addition to identity politics and the geopolitics of Taiwan, his interests include Taiwan-China relations over 400 years, interpreting this relation in terms geopolitics, history, ethnic politics and national identity. He has published two books: ( Light Wind, Warm Sun. Taiwans Mainlanders and the National Identity Transition , 2004) and ( Neighbour of China. The liminality of Taiwan , 2011).