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Author Brown, Melissa J.

Title Is Taiwan Chinese? [electronic resource] : the impact of culture, power, and migration on changing identities / by Melissa J. Brown.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.

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Description xviii, 334 p. : ill.
Series Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China ; 2
Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China ; 2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents What's in a name? : culture, identity, and the "Taiwan problem" -- Where did the aborigines go? : reinstating plains aborigines in Taiwan's history -- "We savages didn't bind feet" : culture, colonial intervention, and long-route identity change -- "Having a wife is better than having a god" : ancestry, governmental power, and short-route identity change -- "They came with their hands tied behind their backs" : forced migrations, identity changes, and state classification in Hubei -- Theory and politics : understanding choices at the border to Han.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Taiwan aborigines -- Ethnic identity -- History.
Ethnicity -- Taiwan -- History.
Ethnicity -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Nationalism -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century.
Nationalism -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Chinese reunification question, 1949-
Tujia (Chinese people) -- China -- Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou -- Ethnic identity -- History -- 20th century.
Taiwan -- Relations -- China.
China -- Relations -- Taiwan.
Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou (China) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0520231813 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520231821 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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