Updated argument and outline

Why there is such a robust self-determination movement is that they must be getting a message from somewhere that it is OK to shout for independence because PRC/ROC policy elites are sending the message through their discursive practices as long as status quo can be maintained. So, PRC/ROC officials are constructing Taiwanese through their dialogue and the Taiwanese are responding to it. The question, then, is who,when and why are Taiwan according to policy elites?

1. History of Taiwan issue. Research Q.
2. Development of literature on Taiwanese identity.
3. Conceptual framework - theories and approaches (materialism, idealism, constructivism - blend)
4. Critical Discourse analysis of political speeches, quotes, statements, interviews.
5. Findings, interpretation, conclusion.
Appendices:
1. Research methods appendix.
2. Texts, transcripts.

Literature review: Historical or thematic:

Identity:

• general academic approaches to identity
• general academic approaches to national identity
• Chinese identity
• Taiwanese identity pre-1895.
• Taiwanese/ Chinese id under Japanese
• Taiwanese/ Chinese id under Nationalists
• Democratisation and identity to date

OR

• Western approaches to identity and national identity
• Chinese approaches to identity and national identity
• PRC academics on Taiwanese identity
• Taiwan academics on Taiwanese identity
• Western academics on Taiwanese identity

OR

• Western approaches (modernist, historical, Marxist, ethno-symbolist).
• Pro-Taiwan approaches
• Pro-Chinese approaches

Conceptual framework

• Materialist theories re: Taiwan
• Idealist theories re: Taiwan
• Constructivist theories re: Taiwan
• Thin- neo-classical constructivism.