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- Title
A Constructed Immaginarium: Re-Contemplating Identity Construction in Taiwan.
- Authors
TSENG, Katherine Hui-Yi
- Abstract
Identity construction in Taiwan travels a discursive course, along which contingencies - generally outcomes of war defeats not attributable to the Taiwanese common, but have required their sacrificial forbearance - have played a significant role. This construction cannot be succinctly classified as of an essentialist, or constructivist nature. Rather, it demonstrates a hybrid characteristic, which shows a lineage, in different contexts and at different periods, to either an ethnic-based sentiment or a civilisdc construction of identification. This identification, for most of the time, is a product of political maneuvering, or to the least, vulnerable to policy lead-and-shape. Politics is, thus, one weighing factor, shedding critical lights in identity formation during authoritarian rule. Put frankly, politics have played a decisive role in delineating the licit-ness of all social events, and had become a critical determinant to the projection and expectation of a social identity for the individual. Yet, its influence starts fading when democratization began in the 90s. While political influences continue, liberalization of the society in all aspects have opened the door to other factors to join this identity re-configuration and refurnishing process. As a result, political and cultural factors are able to co-prospect in this new democratic platform, which gradually has seen a harmonious symbiotic co-existence, yielding voluminous energies to wheel forward this identity re-formation process.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; IDENTITY politics; MODERNIZATION (Social science); DEMOCRACY; JAPANESE colonies; TAIWANESE politics &; government; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
American Journal of Chinese Studies, 2016, Vol 23, p221
- ISSN
0742-5929
- Publication type
Article