Generational Consciousness and Political Mobilisation of Youth in Taiwan

Abstract

N o . 2 0 2 2 / 1 • china perspectives Special Feature china perspectives peer-reviewed article Generational Consciousness and Political Mobilisation of Youth in Taiwan TANGUY LEPESANT china perspectives • N o . 2 0 2 2 / 1 Special Featureof this process, this generation has moved from a mostly passive citizenship to a much more active citizenship in two phases corresponding roughly to the 2000s and 2010s. This last part of the article is based on 261 interviews conducted between 2004 and 2020, as well as 11 focus groups conducted between 2011 and 2019, and 17 sets of interviews conducted in a longitudinal perspective from 2007 to 2020.