Taiwan and Chinese Nationalism: National Identity and Status in International Society
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, and is central to the dynamics of power in this most volatile of regions. The democratic challenge from Taiwan is very potent and its status and identity within the international community is crucial to its survival.

Taiwan and Chinese Nationalism explores how Taiwan's status has come to be a symbol for the legitimacy of the Chinese regime in the evolution of Chinese nationalism. It also demonstrates how this view has been challenged by demands for democratization in Taiwan. The KMT regime is shown to have allowed sovereignty to be practised by the population of the island while maintaining the claim that it is a part of China. The result is a "post-nationalist" identity for the island in an intermediate state between independence and unification with the PRC.
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Taiwan and Chinese Nationalism: National Identity and Status in International Society
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, and is central to the dynamics of power in this most volatile of regions. The democratic challenge from Taiwan is very potent and its status and identity within the international community is crucial to its survival.

Taiwan and Chinese Nationalism explores how Taiwan's status has come to be a symbol for the legitimacy of the Chinese regime in the evolution of Chinese nationalism. It also demonstrates how this view has been challenged by demands for democratization in Taiwan. The KMT regime is shown to have allowed sovereignty to be practised by the population of the island while maintaining the claim that it is a part of China. The result is a "post-nationalist" identity for the island in an intermediate state between independence and unification with the PRC.
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Taiwan and Chinese Nationalism: National Identity and Status in International Society

Taiwan and Chinese Nationalism: National Identity and Status in International Society

by Christopher Hughes
Taiwan and Chinese Nationalism: National Identity and Status in International Society

Taiwan and Chinese Nationalism: National Identity and Status in International Society

by Christopher Hughes

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Overview

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, and is central to the dynamics of power in this most volatile of regions. The democratic challenge from Taiwan is very potent and its status and identity within the international community is crucial to its survival.

Taiwan and Chinese Nationalism explores how Taiwan's status has come to be a symbol for the legitimacy of the Chinese regime in the evolution of Chinese nationalism. It also demonstrates how this view has been challenged by demands for democratization in Taiwan. The KMT regime is shown to have allowed sovereignty to be practised by the population of the island while maintaining the claim that it is a part of China. The result is a "post-nationalist" identity for the island in an intermediate state between independence and unification with the PRC.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415157681
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/19/1997
Series: Politics in Asia
Pages: 202
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Lexile: 1590L (what's this?)

About the Author

Christopher Hughes is a lecturere in Chinese Politics and History at Middlesex University

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Taiwan in Chinese nationalism; Chapter 2 The crisis of Chinese nationalism in Taiwan; Chapter 3 Stretching the one-China principle; Chapter 4 National identity and democratisation; Chapter 5 Forging a post-nationalist identity; Chapter 6 Taiwan's intermediate state; Chapter 7 Conclusion;
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