Taiwan's Nationalistic Politics and Its Difficult 'Status Quo'

Taiwan’s growing calls for independence have provoked China and heightened the risk of military conflict in the region. This paper addresses two issues: first, it seeks to provide a short historical overview of the development of Taiwanese nationalistic self-assertion; second, it questions the commonly held notion of keeping the ‘status quo’, which is in effect always changing and dynamic. The paper uses a historical-institutional framework for its interpretation. It explores the origin and rise of Taiwanese nationalism in its relationship to Taiwan’s past, and the changing geo-political contexts in which it is situated. It then analyses the importance of electoral institutions and the struggles to broaden poltical participation and legitimation. Several disparate sources of Taiwanese identity are also discussed, namely: (i) Taiwan as a frontier territory of the Manchu Empire, which was later colonized and modernized by the Japanese; (ii) the transformation of the ROC regime, its indigenization and grounding in Taiwan in the context of its long separation from China and its international isolation. This indigenization process has been gradually accomplished through electoral struggles and by revising the electoral system and the constitution

Comprendre les nuances des Waishengren

À la fin des années 1940 et au début de la décennie 1950, le monde a assisté à un exode massif de réfugiés politiques fuyant la Chine après la guerre civile. Ceux qui ont suivi le Kuomintang et trouvé refuge à Taiwan ont été appelés « continentaux » ou « waishengren». Cet article offre une analyse des recherches de ces dernières décennies sur les waishengren, faisant ressortir les divers angles d’approche et le contexte politique et social qui a permis leur développement. En conclusion, l’article propose un nouveau programme de recherche se fondant sur l’étude des migrations et de l’analyse historico-sociologique. Cette nouvelle approche met en avant l’importance tant de l’histoire que de l’autonomie des acteurs pour l’étude des waishengrenà Taiwan

On the Origins and Transformation of Taiwanese National Identity

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Taiwan's nationalistic politics and its difficult 'status quo'.

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The Social and Political Aspects of the Anti-Nuclear Power Movement in Taiwan

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Nationalistic Politics in Taiwan

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Indigenization, Institutionalization and Internalization: Tracing the Paths of the Development of Sociology in Taiwan

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THE PATTERNS OF ADAPTATION AMONG VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN A MID-SIZED COMMUNITY (ASSIMILATION)

The primary objective of this study is to examine the Vietnamese refugees resettled in a mid-sized community to gain a better understanding of refugee adaptation by exploring the following issues: (1) Are refugees just another group of voluntary immigrants? (2) Is assimilation the only possible outcome of refugees\u27 adaptation? (3) What are the relations among various dimensions of adaptations? (4) Is the pattern of adaptation pre-determined by refugees\u27 attributes upon arrival? (5) What are the differences or similarities between middle city refugees and big city refugees? The concept of adaptation is conceptualized in three dimensions (social, psychological, and economic) through various indicators. Each dimension is treated as a continuum ranging from pluralism to assimilation. Both ethnographic and survey methods were used to collect and to analyze the data. Four research models were examined by LISREL analysis: the adaptation model, the attribute model, the transition model, and the trauma model. We found that first, refugees are different from voluntary immigrants because of the effects of trauma in adaptation. Second, both assimilation and pluralism exist among the refugees, though some general tendencies can be found. Third, psychologically and socially refugees as a group are more pluralistic than assimilated, but economically they are more assimilated than pluralistic and there is little effect of economic adaptation on either social or psychological adaptation. Fourth, there is no justification for the overuse of the attribute model, while the transition model seems to be more preferable. Fifth, middle-sized city refugees are different from big-city refugees regarding their different tendencies for adaptation because of the lack of concentration, ethnic businesses and services, and the social climate in mid-sized cities

Les origines et la transformation de l'identité nationale taiwanaise

Mau-kuei Chang, Miège Pierre. Les origines et la transformation de l'identité nationale taiwanaise. In: Perspectives chinoises, n°57, 2000. pp. 52-73