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Whither Taiwanization? The Colonization, Democratization and Taiwanization of Taiwan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2013

J. BRUCE JACOBS
J. BRUCE JACOBS*
Affiliation:
Professor of Asian Languages and Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia
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Abstract

Other than during the Civil War of 1945–1949, Taiwan has never been part of a Chinese state ruled by Han Chinese in Mainland China. With the arrival of the Dutch in 1624, Taiwan underwent a succession of six foreign colonial rulers: the Dutch (1624–1662), the Spanish (in northern Taiwan, 1626–1642), the Cheng family (1662–1683), the Manchus (1683–1895), the Japanese (1895–1945), and the Chinese Nationalists (1945–1988). Only with democratization, beginning in 1988, have the people of Taiwan been able to rule themselves. With democratization, the people of Taiwan have increasingly identified as Taiwanese, an identification that is explicitly not Chinese. China's racial appeals to Taiwan are scientifically inaccurate and have no place in the modern world. In order to gain international support, Taiwan's leaders and people need to avoid the Chinese framework of ‘independence’ versus ‘unification’. Rather, they should emphasize Taiwan's decolonialization, a process that Taiwan shares with much of the world.

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Japanese Journal of Political Science , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 2013 , pp. 567 - 586
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