1st Edition

Taiwan’s Modern Identity Reimagined Becoming Taiwanese

By Rosemary Haddon Copyright 2026
244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the formation of Taiwan’s modern identity during the course of the twentieth century and its intersection with the “new” Taiwanese identity. Mapping the identity formation to the successive regimes of the twentieth century that are colonial, neocolonial, and nationalistic, this book traverses the spaces of history, culture, politics, and literature to arrive at the... Read more

Introduction  PART I Navigating Japanese colonialism and the origin of becoming  1 Staging intervention in Japanese colonial Taiwan  2 The imagination of Lai He and Lü Heruo  3 Yang Kui’s polyvalent identity and the question of authenticity  PART II Chinese articulations in a time of crisis  4 Constructing a Chinese identity in a divided world  5 China-centrism in the writing of Huang Chunming  6 Chen Yingzhen’s pan-China identity and repositioning Taiwan  PART III Post-Martial Law Taiwan and becoming Taiwanese  7 Taiwanization and the radical performance of hybridity  8 The politics of homecoming in the works of Zhu Tianxin  9 Mapping the Taiwanese experience as a feminine experience  Conclusion

Biography

Rosemary Haddon is an independent scholar and former senior lecturer in Chinese and Chinese program coordinator at Massey University, New Zealand.