Got an email from Pak today asking me to come to an initial meeting with him and Jonathan Joseph in the Gulbenkian cafe and to be prepared to talk to them about what I've been reading about national identity. This is not what's supposed to happen according to Ruth's pep talk and the Postgrad Research Handbook. We're supposed to have an initial meeting at which we talk about my skills audit and compose a plan for what we need to have produced by the time of my induction review at the end of term. I've been reading up and making notes on Realist Constructivism and discourse analysis, rather than national identity, but not to worry -

A quick look through my bibliography shows up:

Brown, M. (2004) Is Taiwan Chinese? The impact of culture, power, and migration on changing identities. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Callahan, W.A. (2009). China: The Pessoptimist Nation . Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 Dawley, E.N.(2009). The Question of Identity in Recent Scholarship on the History of Taiwan
The China Quarterly, 198, pp 442-452

Gries, P.H. (2004). China’s New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy. Berkeley, University of California Press.

Rubenstein, M.A. (2006), Taiwan: A New History. M.E.Sharpe.

Shih, C.F. (2005). National Identity and National Security: The Case of Taiwan. Available at: http://mail.tku.edu.tw/cfshih/seminar/20030225/20030225.htm

Wachman, A.M. (1994). Taiwan: National Identity and Democratization. New York: M.E.Sharpe.

There's also books I've read more recently:

Harrison (2006), Dawley (2009), Tzeng (2005), Andrade (2006), Rozman (2011).

I need to read Gellner, Hobsbawm and Smith.

Dawley's article again and Daniele Conversi's (2007) article,  Homogenisation, Nationalism and War, criticising Gellner's arguments. Dafydd Fell's (2005) book, Party Politics in Taiwan, is a tightly written and accessible introduction to electoral politics and national identity in Taiwan.

Carwyn Fowler's paper on Welsh national identity and Anthony Smith's concept of national identity.