More sources from notebook

Interesting anthropological studies of the Taiwanese imaginary:

Fredrik Barth's Ethnic Groups and Boundaries (1969) looks at the social organisation of cultural difference and is applicable to Taiwan, while Captain Ripon's story of his adventures in Taiwan adds exotic frontier-style anthropological colour. Emma Teng's Taiwan's Imagined Geography provides a fascinating insight into how the visual transformed the Qing Empire's imagined geography. There's a useful review here.


A very useful Cultural Bibliography for Taiwan Studies.

Helpful website here with lists of Taiwan books and sources.

Is Taiwan Chinese? A History of Taiwanese Nationality (2005) by Taiwanese scholars, Hsueh Hua-yuan and Tai Pao-tsun and Chow Mei-li. Steven E Phillips fascinating study of the KMT occupation of Taiwan, Between Assimilation and Independence, (2003), provides interesting insights into how the Taiwanese encountered China.

Chang and Holt (2007) look at national identities being reconstituted in Taiwan in the ongoing negotiation of boundaries between Taiwanese-ness and Chinese-ness in Symbols in Conflict, where they examine shifting uses of zhongguo and taiwan. Zhang Maogui (2006), thinks there's been a consensus and marriage of convenience in Elite Consensus, Political Culture and Democratic Consolidation.

http://wikileaks.org/ must provide lots of interesting data.