For China, Taiwan is next in line to be unified with the People's Republic after Hong Kong in
1997. China's claim on Taiwan is of great importance to the politics of Chinese Nationalism …

Perhaps owing to the revived relevance of the nationstate amid the ruins of the ideological
blocs of the Cold War, the concept of “national identity” has experienced a conceptual …

National identity is still one of the most contentious issues in present-day Taiwan. At the
surface level, the confrontation between the “pan-blue” and “pan-green” party camps …

Taiwan has become a democracy despite the inability of its political elite to agree on the
national identity of the state. This is a study of the history of democratisation in the light of the …

Taiwan is a divided society; divided along the lines of ethnicity and national identity. During
much of the 1980s and earlier, ethnicity played an important role for the opposition …

Employing national identity theories and survey data in Taiwan, this article explains national
identity shift in Taiwan. Descriptively we find that most Taiwanese people reject being called …

Historically, the concept of “Taiwan” has played a variety of roles in the politics of the island.
During the Qing dynasty (1683–1895 in Taiwan), the Han-settled areas of Taiwan were local …

The two political problems most evident in Taiwan since the mid-1980s have been:(1) the
demands for greater participation, fairness, and equity in the political system, and (2) the …

Cultural discourse and cultural policy have always been prominent features of Taiwan's
postwar politics. Their significance, however, has not been well understood by scholars …

What triggered the change in Taiwanese identity in the 1990s? How has a sense of
Taiwanese-ness been constructed since then? How does the state formulate Taiwanese …