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TAIWAN: CULTURE, SOCIETY, HISTORY
TOPICS AND READINGS FOR FRIDAY, JANUARY 8
TOPICS
Today's class has three parts:
- We will discuss the relationship of history to the past, as well as the relationship of history to national projects, in this case, both Chinese and Taiwanese.
- We will look at the differences between the ways scholars and governments of the Qing and of the Postwar Era saw the relationship between Taiwan and history.
- We will assign candidates and issues for our Monday, January 11 discussion of the January 16 elections.
READINGS
- Teng, Emma Jinhua. 2004. Chapter 2, Taiwan as a Living Museum, in Taiwan's Imagined Geography (Cambridge: Harvard University Press), pp. 60-80. Teng writes about how Chinese scholars in the Qing dynasty fit Taiwan into their ideas of universal history.
- Chang, Bi-yu. 2015. Building Castles in the Sand, chapter 2 in Place, Identity, and Nationalism in Postwar Taiwan, (London: Routledge), pp. 24-66. Chang writes about the fascinating era when no one in power admitted that Taiwan was Taiwan. We will return to her work when we study this era ethnographically later in the course.
ASSIGNMENT
By 8:00 a.m on Friday, January 8 please post 200-400 words on the questions of how history is related to the past, and of how regimes use history as part of their nation-building projects. You should use the two examples from Teng and Chang's work, but you also might bring in other examples from your own knowledge or experience. This post may be in either English or Chinese.
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