UID:
almafu_9959226758502883
Format:
1 online resource (353 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-520-92794-X
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9786612759000
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1-59734-687-X
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1-282-75900-0
Series Statement:
Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China ; 2
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-23181-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-23182-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520927940
