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Taiwan: Manipulation of Ideology and Struggle for Identity

The role of the Taiwan question in Chinese national identity construction On national identity and territoriality Territorial disputes, loss aversion, and war proneness Surveys Concluding remarks Notes REMEMBERED CHINESE-NESS AND ITS DYNAMICS Unveiling the bridging techniques employed for inventing a '5,000-year Chinese history' after the 1949 retreat The 'authentic' descendants of a 5,000-year Chinese history Various techniques of 'bridging' according to tangibility The 'same'place: Bridging noncontiguous points in time by bridging noncontiguous points in place Relics and memorabilia: Bridging Chinese history through portable objects Imitation and replication: Bridging Chinese history through repetition and exaggeration 'Same' time: Creating 'periodic fusion with the past' by establishing an annual cycle of commemorative holidays Historical analogy: Bridging by finding parallel situations in the past Discursive continuity: Bridging Chinese history by nominal continuity Two other bridging techniques: 'human bridges' and 'dis-bridging'Beginning(s), turning points, and the politics behind the process of periodisation Assumed Prehistorical Void Five-Thousand-Year Chinese History The alternatives: Remembered Taiwan-ness and the braided ones Concluding remarks Notes RECENTRING THE NATIONAL SELF The trajectory of national selfhood in Social Studies education The national self in textbooks Methodology: What to look out for A sense of 'we-ness' in textbooks Zhongguo and Zhonghua Zhonghua minguo and Taiwan Woguo and alternative self-references Conclusion Notes EMERGING TAIWANESE IDENTITY, ENDANGERED TAIWANESE LANGUAGE The formation of Taigi The early connection between Taigi and Taiwanese nationalism Suppressed Taigi and Taiwanese identity between 1945 and 1987 Mandarin as the language of Taiwanese identity?Taiwan Mandarin6: The localised standard Mandarin variety in Taiwan Taiwan Mandarin merging with Chinese Mandarin Taigi has faded away but its 'spirit' remains active in various forms The ethnolinguistic identity predicament of Taiwan Will Taigi follow the track of Irish revitalisation?Identity with a language? The case of Singlish Conclusion Notes A SOCIOLINGÜÍSTIC approach TO THE STANDARDISATION OF TAIYU IN THE QUEST FOR A TAIWANESE IDENTITY Conceptualising the Haugen model The selection of the norm Notes Daighi teachers’ Daighi identity and their promotion of students’ identity through learning Daighi in primary school classrooms Conclusion Notes Discourse and ideology in the Taiwanese English-language press during KMT President Ma Ying-jeou’s early rule Sinicisation and Taiwanisation/localisation processes Contextualisation of the narratives: Relevance and poll results of the 2009 mid-term elections Tracing Taiwanisation/Sinicisation processes in the English-language press narratives during the December 2009 'three-in-one' local elections8 Operationalisation: Units of analysis and methodology Formal features: Prominence, origin, and sources of Taiwan-related articles Discursive features: Thematic choices, argumentation lines, and other discursive practices Discussion about the state of Taiwanisation/Sinicisation processes in the narratives Conclusion Notes IDENTITY/IDEOLOGY MATTERS IN CROSS-STRAIT TRANSLATION A case of Mandarin Chinese versions of Peter Hessler's River Town1 The link between ideology/identity and translation Translations and studies of Peter Hessler's River Town in the cross-Strait context Discourse-historical approach (DHA) to critical discourse analysis employed in ideology and identity studies DHA analysis and results of the Taiwan version of Hessler's River Town The translation examples regarding the Taiwan independence issue/One China principle Conclusion Notes Three faces of an Asian hero: Commemorating Koxinga in contemporary China, Taiwan, and Japan Introduction: Who was Koxinga?The many faces of heroism Revisiting Koxinga's legacy today Contesting Koxinga's legacy in Hirado, japan Koxinga as an icon of One China patriotism in the post-Mao People's Republic of China Koxinga's legacy in contemporary Taiwan - cross-Strait ambassador or totem of Taiwanese multiculturalism?Conclusion Notes MANOEUVRING IN THE LINGUISTIC BORDERLAND Southeast Asian migrant women's language strategies in Taiwan Alien wives who speak foreign languages Marginalised second-language (L2) speakers Linguistic borderland Research method The Filipinos: There are also people who can't speak English The Vietnamese: I wish to sing a Vietnamese nursery rhyme to my baby The Indonesian Chinese: The people who once learned Mandarin Conclusion

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