Decolonizing the ‘One China’ Narrative
The Case of Taiwan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8955673 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine Lila Chou (0000-0003-0943-1694, Grinnell College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 161-168 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-08 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x23000377 |
| OpenAlex | W4390656108 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 3 |
This essay argues that contemporary Taiwan, as a democratic, functionally independent polity, constitutes the crucial exception to disavowals by the Republic of China (ROC) and People’s Republic of China (PRC) of imperialist claims and ambitions. As such, it explores how the ideal of a single China spanning the Taiwan Strait (‘one China’) depends on the erasure of a (proto-) national Taiwanese identity, and possibly the suppression of the people who claim it. ‘One China’ narratives seek to naturalize Taiwan’s absorption into the ROC in the 1940s and its potential future annexation by the PRC, hiding the pressures placed on Taiwanese people today to give up their hard-fought democracy, as well as the bloodshed that would be involved in any military conquest
Annexation · China · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Ideal (ethics · Literature · Mainland China · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Political status of Taiwan · Polity · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law
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Decolonizing the ‘One China’ Narrative
| Citations per year | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |