Brown, Melissa J.

Is Taiwan Chinese? the impact of culture, power, and migration on changing identities / [electronic resource] : by Melissa J. Brown. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004. - xviii, 334 p. : ill. - Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China ; 2 . - Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China ; 2. .

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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Taiwan aborigines--Ethnic identity--History.
Ethnicity--History.--Taiwan
Ethnicity--History--China--20th century.
Nationalism--History--Taiwan--20th century.
Nationalism--History--China--20th century.
Chinese reunification question, 1949-
Tujia (Chinese people)--Ethnic identity--History--China--Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou--20th century.


Taiwan--Relations--China.
China--Relations--Taiwan.
Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou (China)--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.


Electronic books.

DS799.42 / .B76 2004eb

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