Is Taiwan Chinese?: The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520231825)

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 1990s. 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.

Author: Melissa J. Brown
ISBN-10: 0520231821
ISBN-13: 9780520231825
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 02/04/2004
Pages: 333
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.12w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2004 pg. 349