Decolonizing the ‘One China’ Narrative: The Case of Taiwan

Title	Decolonizing the ‘One China’ Narrative: The Case of Taiwan
Creator	周怡齡 Chou, Catherine Lila
Contributor	歷史系
Date	2024-02
Date Issued	2024-09-11
Summary	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.
Relation	The Historical Journal, Vol.67, No.1, pp.161-168
Type	article
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X23000377

dc.contributor	歷史系
dc.creator (作者)	周怡齡
dc.creator (作者)	Chou, Catherine Lila
dc.date (日期)	2024-02
dc.date.accessioned	2024-09-11	-
dc.date.available	2024-09-11	-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間)	2024-09-11	-
dc.identifier.uri (URI)	https://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/153743	-
dc.description.abstract (摘要)	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.
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dc.relation (關聯)	The Historical Journal, Vol.67, No.1, pp.161-168
dc.title (題名)	Decolonizing the ‘One China’ Narrative: The Case of Taiwan
dc.type (資料類型)	article
dc.identifier.doi (DOI)	10.1017/S0018246X23000377
dc.doi.uri (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X23000377