Competing conceptions of Taiwan's identity: The irresolvable conflict in cross-strait relations

Journal of Contemporary China

Volumn 6, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 307-317

  Rigger, Shelley ^a  

^a DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS; GEOPOLITICAL RELATIONS; INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT; NATIONAL IDENTITY;

CHINA; TAIWAN;

EID: 0031410484     PISSN: 10670564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10670569708724280     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Alan Wachman, Taiwan: National Identity and Democratization (Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1994), p. 65.
2. Jia Yibin, Lun Taidu (On Taiwan Independence) (Beijing: Tuanjie Chuban She, 1993), p. 54.
3. Jia, p. 54.
4. Jia, p. 54.
5. Wachman, p. 67.
6. Patricia Ebrey, 'Surnames and Han Chinese identity', in Melissa J. Brown, ed., Negotiating Ethnicities in China and Taiwan (Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1996), p. 34.
7. Ebrey, p. 20.
8. Ebrey, p. 23.
9. Quoted in Ebrey, p. 24.
10. Shelley Rigger, 'Voices of Manchu identity, 1635-1935', in Stevan Harrell, ed., Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995), pp. 196-198.
11. Melissa J. Brown, 'On becoming Chinese', in Brown, ed., Negotiating Ethnicities in China and Taiwan (Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1996), p. 46.
12. For a discussion of samples of this literature, see Hai Ren, 'Taiwan and the impossiblity of the Chinese', in Brown, ed., Negotiating Ethnicities in China and Taiwan (Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1996), pp. 83-93.
13. Ren, p. 84.
14. Wachman, p. 85.
15. Jonathan Mirsky, 'How China lost Taiwan', New York Review of Books, (23 May 1996), p. 10.
16. Mirsky, p. 13.
17. For Jia's discussion of self-determination, see pp. 89-96, passim.
18. Jia, p. 56.
19. Jia, pp. 57-58.
20. Jia, p. 52.
21. Rigger, p. 196.
22. Harrell, Stevan, 'Introduction: civilizing projects and the reaction to them', in Harrell, ed., Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995), p. 25.
23. Harrell, pp. 25, 27.
24. Wachman, p. 85.
25. Ren, p. 93.