Legitimacy, Meaning and Knowledge in the Making of Taiwanese Identity

265 Pages·2006·1.133 MB·English

by  Mark Harrison

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Legitimacy, Meaning, and Knowledge
in the Making of Taiwanese Identity
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Legitimacy, Meaning, and
Knowledge in the Making of
Taiwanese Identity
Mark Harrison
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LEGITIMACY,MEANING,ANDKNOWLEDGEINTHEMAKINGOFTAIWANESEIDENTITY
© Mark Harrison,2006.
All rights reserved.No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any
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quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.
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ISBN-13:978–1–4039–7587–4
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Harrison,Mark,1968–
Legitimacy,meaning,and knowledge in the making of Taiwanese
identity / Mark Harrison.
p.cm.
ISBN 1–4039–7587–6
1.Taiwanese—Ethnic identity.I.Title.
DS799.42.H37 2006
305.895(cid:2)105249—dc22 2006046049
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For Guinevere, and for my father,
Dennis Harrison (1936–2003)
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Contents
Acknowledgments viii
A Note on Romanization ix
Chapter 1 Epistemologies 1
Chapter 2 Explaining National Identity 23
Chapter 3 Legitimizing Taiwan 51
Chapter 4 Elaborating Taiwan 79
Chapter 5 Writing Taiwan 107
Chapter 6 New Narratives 131
Chapter 7 New Epistemologies 155
Chapter 8 New Taiwanese 191
Notes 207
Bibliography 231
Index 247
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Acknowledgments
The author wishes to thank Dr. Gloria Davies and Professor Bruce Jacobs for
their scholarly advice. The Center for Chinese Studies at the National Central
Library in Taipei and the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the
Australian National University provided invaluable material and intellectual
resources. The author would also like to express his warmest thanks to Lee
Su-chuan at Academia Sinica for her knowledge, insight, and wisdom.
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A Note on Romanization
This book applies the romanization conventions generally used for work on
Taiwan. In instances when received romanizations of names and places are
already established, or when individuals romanize their own names in specific
ways, then these are observed. When no received romanized form has been
established, then the hanyu pinyinsystem in used.