1st Edition

Memories of the Future National Identity Issues and the Search for a New Taiwan

By Stephane Corcuff Copyright 2002
    312 Pages
    by Routledge

    312 Pages
    by Routledge

    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. It addresses questions central to the looming international issue of Taiwan/China. Part one considers the historical events that help to explain the emergence and development of a separatist, dissident discourse. The second part deals with the current issue of national identity transition in Taiwan. The final part places the national identity debate in a broader perspective by focusing on the larger issues of the maturation of the national identity question.

    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

    Biography

    Stephane Corcuff