Taiwanese Identity from Domestic, Regional and Global Perspectives

by Damm, Jens; Schubert, Gunter

• ISBN13: 9783825804312
• ISBN10: 3825804313
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-27
• Publisher: Lit Verlag

Summary

The tension between Taiwan's globalization and its ongoing identity formation is clearly visible in the economic, political and societal spheres of the island republic. Against this background, the authors of this volume deal with the following questions: To what extent has Taiwan become part of the Greater China region and - in that sense - a part of "China"? How successful have Taiwan's endeavors been to escape "China", assert its own identity and communicate this to the international community? How does Taiwanese identity connect to its integration within "Greater China" and beyond, that is, to its being part of a gobalized (transnational) world? The varied focus and range of the papers in this volume show that politically, the result of the debate on Taiwan's (national) identity is undecided; economically, however, Taiwan has become part of a Greater China region and cross-Strait integration would thus seem to be inevitable.

Table of Contents

Taiwanese Identity from Domestic, Regional and Global Perspectives

Taiwanese Identity from Domestic, Regional and Global Perspectives

How to Face a Rising China? The DPP's Identity Politics and Cross-Strait Relations at the End of the Chen Shui-bian Era

Partisan Issue Competition in Contemporary Taiwan: Is Taiwan's Democracy Dead?

Legal Reform in Taiwan

Understanding the Political Consequences of People-to-People Relations across the Taiwan Strait: Towards an Analytical Framework

"Overseas Chinese" and Taiwan: Unresolved Questions of Identity and Belonging

Narrating History in Taiwan's Changing Society

Sex Revolution and Sex Rights Movement in Taiwan

From Exclusive to Adaptive National Identity: Taiwan's Mainland Spouses' Immigration Policy

Conference Reports

Asian Studies at a Turning Point, University of Turku, 6-7 November 2006

Fourth European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) Conference, Stockholm, 20-22 Apri12007

Fifth Annual Chinese Internet Conference, ColIege Station, 22-23 May 2007

Reviews

Keelung Hong and Stephan O. Murray, Looking through Taiwan: American Anthropologists' Collusion with Ethnic Domination

Minxin Pei, China's Trapped Transition. The Limits of Developmental Autocracy

Mechthild Lentner, Klaus Muhlhahn (Hrsg.), Kolonialkrieg in China. Die Niederschlagung del' Boxerbewegung 1900-190I

Nachruf Frederic Evans Wakeman Jr. (1937-2006)

Notes on Contributors

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