Is Taiwan Chinese? And Does it Matter?
Is Taiwan Chinese? And Does it Matter?
Melissa J. Brown, Ph.D. Brown is Managing Editor of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. She is the author of Is Taiwan Chinese? The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities.
People in Taiwan view their identity as different from Chinese identity. That difference is rooted in historical social experience, as Taiwan’s ethnically diverse population was ruled by Dutch, Qing, Han, Japanese, and Chinese nationalist regimes before it became a full electoral democracy in 1996. Taiwan’s different history and identity underpins contemporary political and economic implications for the Asia-Pacific region and, given one recent phone call, renewed global tensions.
Friday, December 9
3:00 PM
232 Bay State Road
Anthropology Seminar Room
This event is co-sponsored with the Department of Anthropology
