Changing Taiwanese Identities

This book addresses the question of how Taiwanese identities have changed historically and since democratization began in the late 1980s. It also examines the impact of this process on cross-strait relations between Taiwan and the People's Republic of China.

J. Bruce Jacobs is Emeritus Professor of Asian Languages and Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His recent books on Taiwan include Local Politics in Rural Taiwan under Dictatorship and Democracy (Norwalk, CT: EastBridge, 2008), Democratizing Taiwan (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012), and The Kaohsiung Incident in Taiwan and Memoirs of a Foreign Big Beard (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016). He has also edited the four-volume Critical Readings on China-Taiwan Relations (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014). His current project is A History of Taiwan. Peter Kang is Professor, International Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Area Studies / Department of Taiwan and Regional Studies, National Donghwa University, Taiwan. Email: kang@gms.ndhu.edu.tw

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Changing Identities of Taiwan's Plains Chapter 3: Seeking "Roots" in Taiwan: "Red Hair" and the Dutch Princess of Eight Treasures Chapter 4: Languages under Colonization: The Taiwanese Language Movement Chapter 5: Taiwanese Youth and National Identity under Ma Ying-jeou Chapter 6: Lee Teng-hui and the formation of Taiwanese Identity Chapter 7: Cyberspace and the Rise of Taiwanese Identity Chapter 8: WANG Shi: Changes in the National Identification of a Third Generation Mainlander under Ma Ying-jeou