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In the struggles for political and cultural hegemony that Taiwan has witnessed since the 1980s, the focal point in contesting narratives and the key battlefield in the political debates are primarily spatial and place-based. The major fault line appears to be a split between an imposed identity emphasizing cultural origin (China) and an emphasis on...
After their defeat in the Chinese civil war, in 1949 the exiled Kuomintang (KMT) government fled to Taiwan and endeavoured to educate the baby-boomer generation on the island to become ‘true Chinese’. Geography education was one of the fundamental vehicles used by the KMT to construct a Chinese identity and to create a longing for a Chinese motherl...
With its disputed international status and a recently proindependence government, Taiwan is striving to erase the memory of China as the motherland and construct a local homeland legacy. In the last fifteen years, the Taiwanese government has started a vigorous nation-building process and has strived to construct Taiwan as an island-state in its ow...
In recent years, Yushan (玉山, Jade Mountain)—the highest mountain in North East Asia—has been promoted by the Taiwanese government as the 'sacred mountain (shengshan聖山)', symbolising Taiwan's nationalist spirit. It all started in 1997, a Yushan movement was launched by the New Idea Magazine. According its publisher, Kuo Cheng-feng(郭承豐), the original...
What triggered the change in Taiwanese identity in the 1990s? How has a sense of Taiwanese-ness been constructed since then? How does the state formulate Taiwanese culture and create meaning within that culture? This article looks at how Taiwan’s ruling parties have constructed Taiwanese culture and identity since the lifting of martial law. It com...
Quel fut le moteur des transformations survenues dans l’identité taiwanaise au cours des années 1990 ? Comment s’est construit une taiwanité ? Par quels moyens l’Etat élabore-t-il la culture taiwanaise et produit-il du sens ? Cet article analyse de quelle manière les partis politiques au pouvoir ont contribué à la construction de la culture et de l...
