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Is Taiwan Chinese? : the impact of culture, power, and migration on changing identities / by Melissa J. Brown.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Melissa J.
- Series:
- Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China ; 2.
- Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Taiwan aborigines--Ethnic identity--History.
- Taiwan aborigines.
- Ethnicity--Taiwan--History.
- Ethnicity.
- Ethnicity--China--History--20th century.
- Nationalism--Taiwan--History--20th century.
- Nationalism.
- Nationalism--China--History--20th century.
- Chinese reunification question, 1949-.
- Tujia (Chinese people)--China--Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou--Ethnic identity--History--20th century.
- Tujia (Chinese people).
- Taiwan--Relations--China.
- Taiwan.
- China--Relations--Taiwan.
- China.
- Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou (China)--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.
- Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou (China).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 1990's. 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.
- Contents:
- What's in a name? : culture, identity, and the "Taiwan problem"
- Where did the aborigines go? : reinstating plains aborigines in Taiwan's history
- "We savages didn't bind feet" : culture, colonial intervention, and long-route identity change
- "Having a wife is better than having a god" : ancestry, governmental power, and short-route identity change
- "They came with their hands tied behind their backs" : forced migrations, identity changes, and state classification in Hubei
- Theory and politics : understanding choices at the border to Han.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612759000
- 9780520927940
- 052092794X
- 9781597346870
- 159734687X
- 9781282759008
- 1282759000
- OCLC:
- 475931952
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