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TAIWAN: CULTURE, SOCIETY, HISTORY
TOPICS AND READINGS FOR MONDAY, JANUARY 4
TOPICS
Today's class has three parts:
- Introductions--to each other and to the material and format of the course. We will all introduce ourselves and our reasons for our interest in Taiwan, along with what we hope to get out of the course.
- A brief presentation introducing the geography of Taiwan and some of the historical and cultural issues we will cover in the course
- Discussion of the issues that you have posted about.
READINGS
- Hao Rui. 郝瑞。2011. 世界能從臺灣學到什麼. 思想, 17: 1-22. This is a Chinese translation of an address I gave at the North American Taiwan Studies Association conference in 2006, updated for publication. It lays out some of what I think are the most important issues for Taiwan. Here is an English version.
- Brown, Melissa J. 2006. Chapter 1, What's in a Name, from Is Taiwan Chinese? (Berkeley: University of California Press), pp. 1-31. This is the clearest introduction I know of to the "Taiwan Question," laid out without a bias toward either side.
ASSIGNMENT
By 8:00 a.m on Monday, January 4 (you can have a little leeway this time, since this is the first class) please post 200-400 words on the question of "Is Taiwan Chinese?" This post must be in English, because the question hinges partly on the meaning of the English word "Chinese." Please be very careful to define what you mean when you use the word.
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