The product of five years of North American Taiwan Studies Conferences, this book carefully analyzes the emergence of national feelings in Taiwan, its historical roots and its contemporary manifestations. The book covers historical events and current issues.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
I: Historical Roots; 1: The Taiwan Republic of 1895 and the Failure of the Qing Modernizing Project; 2: The February 28 Incident and National Identity; 3: Who Joined the Clandestine Political Organization?; II: The Transition of National Identity; 4: The Symbolic Dimension of Democratization and the Transition of National Identity Under Lee Teng-Hui; 5: Mirrors and Masks; 6: The Evolution of National Identity Issues in Democratizing Taiwan; 7: National Identity and Ethnicity in Taiwan; III: Perspectives on Ethnicity and Taiwanese Nationalism; 8: Taiwan's Mainlanders, New Taiwanese?; 9: Toward a Pragmatic Nationalism; 10: The Political Formation of Taiwanese Nationalism; Conclusion
