Taiwan's Modern Identity Reimagined

Becoming Taiwanese
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-17487-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research on Taiwan Series

This book examines the formation of Taiwan’s modern identity during the course of the twentieth century and its intersection with the “new” Taiwanese identity.

Mapping the identity formation to the successive regimes of the twentieth century that are colonial, neocolonial, and nationalistic, this book traverses the spaces of history, culture, politics, and literature to arrive at the ontological performance of becoming Taiwanese. It argues that Taiwan’s modern identity bears the footprint of its successive hegemonies, shaped by the transition from one form of othering to another and from one form of becoming to another. By interpreting the salient events of the historical past that shaped the identity and explaining the transition to the present, the chapters of this book conclude that the ontologies of becoming Japanese, Chinese, and Taiwanese structure the architecture of Taiwan’s identity.

Comprising invaluable reading material for students and scholars of Taiwan studies and East Asian history, this book will also be of special interest to scholars of cultural studies, colonialism and postcolonialism, identity theory, and international relations.

Zielgruppe

Academic, General, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haddon, Rosemary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction PART I Navigating Japanese colonialism and the origin of becoming 1 Staging intervention in Japanese colonial Taiwan 2 The imagination of Lai He and Lü Heruo 3 Yang Kui’s polyvalent identity and the question of authenticity PART II Chinese articulations in a time of crisis 4 Constructing a Chinese identity in a divided world 5 China-centrism in the writing of Huang Chunming 6 Chen Yingzhen’s pan-China identity and repositioning Taiwan PART III Post-Martial Law Taiwan and becoming Taiwanese 7 Taiwanization and the radical performance of hybridity 8 The politics of homecoming in the works of Zhu Tianxin 9 Mapping the Taiwanese experience as a feminine experience Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Rosemary Haddon is an independent scholar and former senior lecturer in Chinese and Chinese program coordinator at Massey University, New Zealand.