Is Taiwan Chinese? [[electronic resource] ] : the impact of culture, power, and migration on changing identities / / by Melissa J. Brown

• Autore: Brown Melissa J
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.89/925
• Soggetto topico: Taiwan aborigines - Ethnic identity - History; Ethnicity - Taiwan - History; Ethnicity - China - History - 20th century; Nationalism - Taiwan - History - 20th century; Nationalism - China - History - 20th century; Chinese reunification question, 1949-; Tujia (Chinese people) - China - Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou - Ethnic identity - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Taiwan Relations China; China Relations Taiwan; Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou (China) Ethnic relations History 20th century
• Soggetto non controllato: 1990s; ancestry; asia; asian history; asian identity; case study; china; chinese history; chinese identity; chinese independence; culture; ethnic identity; ethnicity; ethnography; identity politics; peoples republic of china; political rhetoric; political; race; racism; taiwan; taiwanese history; taiwanese identity; united states; world history
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Is Taiwan Chinese
• ISBN: 0-520-92794-X; 9786612759000; 1-59734-687-X; 1-282-75900-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783070403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China ; ; 2.