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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 People's Republic of China.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Changing Identities of Taiwan’s Plains
Chapter 3: Seeking “Roots” in Taiwan: “Red Hair” and the Dutch Princess of Eight Treasures
Chapter 4: Languages under Colonization: The Taiwanese Language Movement
Chapter 5: Taiwanese Youth and National Identity under Ma Ying-jeou
Chapter 6: Lee Teng-hui and the formation of Taiwanese Identity
Chapter 7: Cyberspace and the Rise of Taiwanese Identity
Chapter 8: WANG Shi: Changes in the National Identification of a Third Generation Mainlander under Ma Ying-jeou
About the author
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: EastBridge, 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 Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Area Studies / Department of Taiwan and Regional Studies, National Donghwa University, Taiwan. Email: kang@gms.ndhu.edu.tw
Summary
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 People's Republic of China.
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'Here we have a smart book on an important but ever changing and complex reality: Taiwanese identities.' - Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Professor in Political Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
'An important ‘change of identity’ as outlined in Chapter 2 by Jolan Hsieh is that of the Plains Indigenous Peoples. Their changes, although occurring at similar stages to their settler counterparts, must be understood in their own context.' - Niki J.P. Alsford, Reader in Asia Pacific Studies, University of Central Lancashire, UK
