Back after a couple of weeks away and am wishing I'd stayed because I feel that I'm faling behind with both reading and writing up. Spent from Friday to Sunday reading through materials but cannot seem to knuckle down to a sustained timetable. Always getting distracted or making tea.
Anyway, read a very useful PhD thesis from a guy at Aberystwyth on the imagining of Taiwanese identity, then went to SOAS library and managed two chapters of close note making from Hughes' Taiwan and Chinese Nationalism. Must find a happy medium for note-taking. Need to type this stuff up.
Found a very interesting report in SOAS library on the 228 Incident from a PRC perspective. It's a totally propagandistic take on the massacre, creating a discourse that frames it in terms of a socialist people's Chinese nationalist uprising against the Chiang Kai-shek clique. This will be good for a case study using critical discourse analysis.A quick search for it on the Internet led me to a link from the Economist on the 228 museum in Taipei and then, wonder of wonders, a link to a free copy of George Kerr's Formosa Betrayed which, in turn, led me to Peng Ming-min's A Taste of Freedom. I can't wait to see what other treasures are there.
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