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Is Taiwan Chinese? [electronic resource] : the impact of culture, power, and migration on changing identities / by Melissa J. Brown.

By: Brown, Melissa J.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China: 2.Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004Description: xviii, 334 p. : ill.Subject(s): Taiwan aborigines -- Ethnic identity -- History | Ethnicity -- Taiwan -- History | Ethnicity -- China -- History -- 20th century | Nationalism -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century | Nationalism -- China -- History -- 20th century | Chinese reunification question, 1949- | Tujia (Chinese people) -- China -- Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou -- Ethnic identity -- History -- 20th century | Taiwan -- Relations -- China | China -- Relations -- Taiwan | Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou (China) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.89/925 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
What's in a name? : culture, identity, and the "Taiwan problem" -- Where did the aborigines go? : reinstating plains aborigines in Taiwan's history -- "We savages didn't bind feet" : culture, colonial intervention, and long-route identity change -- "Having a wife is better than having a god" : ancestry, governmental power, and short-route identity change -- "They came with their hands tied behind their backs" : forced migrations, identity changes, and state classification in Hubei -- Theory and politics : understanding choices at the border to Han.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

What's in a name? : culture, identity, and the "Taiwan problem" -- Where did the aborigines go? : reinstating plains aborigines in Taiwan's history -- "We savages didn't bind feet" : culture, colonial intervention, and long-route identity change -- "Having a wife is better than having a god" : ancestry, governmental power, and short-route identity change -- "They came with their hands tied behind their backs" : forced migrations, identity changes, and state classification in Hubei -- Theory and politics : understanding choices at the border to Han.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.