Cultural, Ethnic, and Political Nationalism

This volume analyzes what is arguably the single most important aspect of cultural and political change in Taiwan over the past quarter-century: the trend toward "indigenization" (bentuhua). Focusing on the indigenization of politics and culture and its close connection with the identity politics of ethnicity and nationalism, this volume is an attempt to map prominent contours of the indigenization paradigm as it has unfolded in Taiwan.

John Makeham is Reader in Chinese Studies, Centre for Asian Studies, The University of Adelaide. A-chin Hsiau is a Fellow in the Institute of Sociology at Academica Sinica, Taiwan.

Introduction

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I. Democratization and Nationalism

1. "Taiwanization" in Taiwan's Politics

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J. Bruce Jacobs

2. Why Bother about School Textbooks?: An Analysis of the Origin of the Disputes over Renshi Taiwan Textbooks in 1997

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Fu-chang Wang

II. Identity in Literature

3. Being/Not Being at Home in the Writing of Zhu Tianxin

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Rosemary Haddon

4. The Indigenization of Taiwanese Literature: Historical Narrative, Strategic Essentialism, and State Violence

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A-chin Hsiau

III. Memory and the Built Environment

5. Reading History Through the Built Environment in Taiwan

159

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Jeremy E. Taylor

IV. The "China-centered" Paradigm and Indigenization

6. Indigenization Discourse in Taiwanese Confucian Revivalism

187

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John Makeham

7. The Movement to Indigenize the Social Sciences in Taiwan: Origin and Predicaments

221

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Maukuei Chang

Epilogue: Bentuhua-An Endeavor for Normalizing a Would-Be Nation-State?

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A-chin Hsiau

Notes on Contributors

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Index

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Cultural, Ethnic, and Political Nationalism in Contemporary Taiwan Bentuhua

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