Taiwanese Identity in the Twenty-first Century
As we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century, Taiwans quest for identity remains the most contentious issue in the domestic arena of Taiwanese politics. From here, it spills over into the cross-Strait relationship and impacts on regional and global security. Whether Taiwan is a nation-state or whether Taiwan has any claim to be a nation-state and how Taiwan should relate to China are issues which have long been hotly debated on the island, although it seems that much of this debate is now more focused on finding an adequate strategy to deal with the Beijing government than on the legitimacy of Taiwans claim to sovereignty as the Republic of China.
The collection of chapters in this book shed light on very different aspects of Taiwans current state of identity formation, from historical, political, social and economic perspectives, both domestically and globally. As such it will be invaluable reading for students and scholars of Taiwan studies, politics, history and society, as well as those interested in cross-Strait relations, Chinese politics, and Chinese international relations.
Gunter Schubert is Professor of Greater China Studies at the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Tbingen, Germany.
Jens Damm is an Assistant Professor, currently affiliated to the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Studies, Chang Jung University, Taiwan.
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The Routledge Research on Taiwan Series seeks to publish quality research on all aspects of Taiwan studies. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the books will cover topics such as politics, economic development, culture, society, anthropology and history.
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1 Taiwan, Humanitarianism and Global Governance
Alain Guilloux
2 Planning in Taiwan
Spatial planning in the twenty-first century
Roger Bristow
3 Popular Culture in Taiwan
Charismatic modernity
Marc L. Moskowitz
4 Politics of Difference in Taiwan
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5 Taiwanese Identity in the Twenty-first Century
Domestic, regional and global perspectives
Edited by Gunter Schubert and Jens Damm
Taiwanese Identity in the Twenty-first Century
Domestic, regional and global perspectives
Edited by
Gunter Schubert and Jens Damm
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Taiwanese identity in the 21st century: domestic, regional, and global perspectives/edited by Gunter Schubert and Jens Damm.
p. cm.Routledge research on Taiwan; 5
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1. TaiwanPolitics and government20002002. NationalismTaiwan. 3. Group identityTaiwan. I. Schubert, Gunter, 1963. II. Damm, Jens.
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Contents
Gunter Schubert and Jens Damm
PART I
Domestic perspectives
Ann Heylen
Stefan Fleischauer
Wu Yu-Shan
Gunter Schubert and Stefan Braig
Dafydd Fell
Stphane Corcuff
PART II
Regional and global perspectives
Chu Yun-han
Keng Shu
Winnie King
Joseph Lee
Jens Damm
Shih Chih-yu
Malte Philipp Kaeding
Illustrations
Tables
Figures
Contributors
Stefan Braig is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Department of Chinese and Korean Studies, University of Tbingen. He is also Managing Director of the Tbingen-based European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT). Stefan Braig specializes in Taiwanese domestic politics, primarily local politics. His current research is focused on the local party organization of the KMT in central and southern Taiwan.
Yun-han Chu is a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica and Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University. He is concurrently President of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT) at Tbingen University. Professor Chu specializes in the politics of Greater China, the East Asian political economy and democratization. He is the Coordinator of Asian Barometer Survey, a regional survey network on democracy, governance and development covering more than sixteen Asian countries. Among his recent English publications are China under Jiang Zemin (Lynne Rienner 2000), The New Chinese Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities after the 16th Party Congress (Cambridge University Press 2004), How East Asians View Democracy (Columbia University Press 2008).
Stphane Corcuff is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of Chinese Studies at the Lyons Institute of Political Studies and a researcher at Lyons Institute of East Asia. He is also an advisor to the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT) at Tbingen University. He teaches Chinese history, economy and politics, as well as Taiwans identity politics and the historical geopolitics of Taiwan. His research has focused primarily on identity politics under the process of reform and Taiwanization initiated by Lee Teng-hui, the construction of ethnic categories, and the symbolic/material dimension of the national identity transition. He has authored some sixty papers on Taiwan and edited Memories of the Future: National Identity Issues and the Search for a New Taiwan (M. E. Sharpe 2002). He is presently on a sabbatical leave to the French Research Center on Contemporary China, Taipei Office, Academia Sinica.
Jens Damm is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Studies, Chang Jung University, Taiwan, on leave from Freie Universitt Berlin. He is also an Associate Fellow at the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT) at Tbingen University and a board member of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS). His research is mainly focused on discourses on gender and ethnicity-related issues in Taiwan, Greater China including the PRC, and on the impact of new communication technologies. He is the author of
