Is Taiwan Chinese?: The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities

Is Taiwan Chinese?: The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities
ISBN-10
052092794X
ISBN-13
9780520927940
Category
Social Science
Pages
349
Language
English
Published
2004-02-04
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Melissa J. Brown

Description

The "one China" policy officially supported by the People's Republic of China, the United States, and other countries asserts that there is only one China and Taiwan is a part of it. The debate over whether the people of Taiwan are Chinese or independently Taiwanese is, Melissa J. Brown argues, a matter of identity: Han ethnic identity, Chinese national identity, and the relationship of both of these to the new Taiwanese identity forged in the 1990s. In a unique comparison of ethnographic and historical case studies drawn from both Taiwan and China, Brown's book shows how identity is shaped by social experience—not culture and ancestry, as is commonly claimed in political rhetoric.

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