Title: Taiwan Chinese: Encountering and Choice in Postcolonial Scholarship
Abstract: Sinicization takes place in people's minds, and the intellectual Sinicization of IR scholarship does so consciously and to an even greater extent than other forms of Sinicization. One intellectual aspect of Sinicization is how IR theory can be made more suitable for China. The other side of the coin is how to make China more suitable for IR theory. In chapters 1 and 2, I show how Chinese leaders and writers who consider these questions exclusively on behalf of China have come up with strategies of harmonious realism. They differ from those other Chinese who ponder China's changing role in world politics, those who possess an identity that is simultaneously Chinese and non-Chinese and yet come from lower echelons or outside territorial China. They include Chinese in Taiwan, Southeast Asia, North America, and elsewhere. They have acquired a dimension of identity in addition to just being Chinese, largely because of the local political conditions in which they find themselves as they consider the issue of China rising. Their Chinas are illustrative of the endless number of Chinas that serve different life purposes that watchers of the national China could not care less about. Part II of this book looks at a few of these liminal Chinese communities and the unlimited intellectual possibilities of their writing of China. The present chapter is concerned with the approaches of Taiwanese Chinese.KeywordsChina StudyEast Asian StudyIndigenous PsychologyChinese IdentityTaiwan IndependenceThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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