Lee Teng-hui and Taiwan’s Quest for Identity

Tsai, Shih-shan Henry

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“…In Hypothesis I, I first bring this example. The former leader of Taiwan area, Lee Teng-hui, whose mother is Japanese, had his personal experience of going to Japan and received university education in Kyoto Imperial University (Tsai, 2005). Before his being the leader of Taiwan area, many Japanese culture transmission was prohibited by the government.…”

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Conviction, Votes, or Nationalism?

Paci

2021

J Stud Res

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Why do policymakers pursue cultural policies? The existing literature presents several potential answers but no study has surveyed them in a comprehensive way. In this essay, I examine a diverse array of factors behind cultural policymaking. Combining domestic and international perspectives, I identify three major motivations: intrinsic demand, constituency demands and nation-building objectives. I employ a mix of qualitative and quantitative evidence to explore the hypotheses stemming from these different decision-making dynamics.

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Conviction, Votes, or Nationalism?

Paci

2021

J Stud Res

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“…He volunteered for the Japanese Imperial Army, fighting in Taiwan and Japan. Returning to a new Taiwan under GMD rule, Lee trained in agricultural economics and began a career in the GMD bureaucracy as an agricultural expert for the Joint Commission of Rural Reconstruction, and quickly rose through the ranks as a hard‐working and bright economist (Lin, 2015; Tsai, 2005). This earned him a sterling reputation led eventually to him being pulled out of agriculture and into politics as mayor of Taipei and provincial governor, before becoming Chairman of the Guomindang and finally President.…”

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Nostalgia for Japanese colonialism: Historical memory and postcolonialism in contemporary Taiwan

Lin

2022

History Compass

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Taiwan is unique among postcolonial societies today for a widespread social nostalgia for Japanese colonial rule. Contrasted with anti‐Japanese sentiment in neighboring East Asian societies like South Korea and China, Taiwan seems to present a puzzling instance of “pro‐colonial” nostalgia. This article discusses this phenomenon through reviewing recent scholarship of Japanese and Guomindang rule of Taiwan and Taiwanese postcolonialism. Nostalgia for Japanese colonialism in Taiwan emerged after the traumatic experiences of later Guomindang authoritarian rule and the politics of democratization and decolonization that followed the end of Guomindang martial law. While some of this social memory is shaped by a generation who lived through Japanese rule, much of the reshaping of Taiwan's historical memory is more complex than merely “pro‐colonialism.” Colonial nostalgia reflects a historical memory shaped by contemporary social experiences of trauma, counterhegemony, and postcolonial agency.

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“…The Presidency of Lee Teng-hui, arguably, represents the entrenchment of the critical juncture initiated by his predecessor Chiang Ching-kuo 蔣經國 (1910-1988; p. 1978-1988). After Chiang abolished martial law, Lee steered the country into a process of democratic consolidation that changed fundamentally the political landscape, the identity of most of the population, and relations between Taiwan and China, which embarked on a path of uncertainty (Tsai 2005). The process of democratisation consolidated in 2000 with the election to the Presidency of the DPP opposition candidate Chen Shui-bian 陳水扁 (b.…”

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The Legacy of an Accommodative Secularism: Religions and Taiwan’s Responses to COVID-19

Laliberté¹

2022

Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies

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Throughout the two years of this pandemic, Taiwanese public authorities have obtained cooperation from religious organisations in limiting and mitigating the contagion, and the population was largely spared the influence of conspiracy theories about the virus’ origins. I have found no trace of any significant doomsday theologies among the major religions practiced in Taiwan emerging in the public health emergency caused by COVID-19. What explains this largely cooperative relationship? From the perspective of public policy, why has the government obtained the compliance of most religious actors to its directive and faced little or no opposition coming from them? I use a historical institutionalist approach to argue that decades of toleration from political leaders of all trends towards religions have generated a path dependency of mutual trust and that legacy predates the period of democratisation. The article explores the extent to which this outcome results from three factors: Taiwan’s religious diversity, or the absence of a religious hegemony opposed to the state; pragmatic and flexible theologies; and/or convergence between successive Taiwanese governments’ social policies and the social teachings of religions.

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Lee Teng-hui and Taiwan’s Quest for Identity

Cited by 15 publications

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Conviction, Votes, or Nationalism?

Conviction, Votes, or Nationalism?

Nostalgia for Japanese colonialism: Historical memory and postcolonialism in contemporary Taiwan

The Legacy of an Accommodative Secularism: Religions and Taiwan’s Responses to COVID-19

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