Taiwanese identity construction: A discourse analysis of Chinese textbooks from the 1970s to 2004.

详细信息   

• 作者：Lee ; Sheue-jen Ou.
• 学历：Doctor
• 年：2007
• 导师：Hanauer, David I.
• 毕业院校：Indiana University
• 专业：Anthropology, Cultural.;Education, Sociology of.
• ISBN：9780542983788
• CBH：3243149
• Country：USA
• 语种：English
• FileSize：14787215
• Pages：293

文摘

The aim of this is to examine how Taiwanese identity was constructed in seventh grade Chinese textbooks with respect to four different political leaders, and how these textbooks reflected the historical/sociopolitical contexts of Taiwan from the 1970s to 2004. This study addresses the problem of the predominance of Chinese culture within the official Chinese textbooks---the texts were deeply situated within the historical/sociopolitical contexts of mainland China; thus hindering students from constructing a Taiwanese identity.;Two sets of data will be offered. The first set of data is a set of Chinese textbooks collected from the 1970s to 2004. The second set of data is a chronological narrative of the history of Taiwan. The purpose of the historical narrative is to lay the foundation for interpreting the relationship between the findings of the textual analysis of Chinese textbooks and the historical/sociopolitical contexts of Taiwan. This study employs a qualitative systematic interpretative approach based on a coding system designed to conduct textual analysis. The coding system includes five categories: Author, Subject, Genre/Theme, Explicit Cultural Representation, and Indicator of National Identity.;The empirical results indicate that in the Chiang Kai-shek period (1970s), in order to legitimize the Republic of China regime in Taiwan, the texts imposed the ROC Nationalist discourse as ideological indoctrination constructing Taiwanese students' Chinese identity. In the Chiang Ching-Kuo period (1980s), the texts were prevalent with Chinese discourse emphasizing the learning of classic Chinese poetry and prose which contributed to Chinese identity formation. In the Lee Teng-hui period (1990s), due to the lifting of martial law and the promotion of Taiwan-centered education, the texts significantly increased Taiwanese discourse which directly contributed to local Taiwanese identity formation. In the Chen Sui-bain period (2000-2004), in line with Chen's political agenda of a "state to state" relationship between Taiwan and China, the 2000s texts completely deconstructed the ROC Nationalist discourse and presented diversified discourses including aboriginal, Chinese, Hakka, Taiwanese, and Western discourses. The cultural/diversified discourses promoted not only local (Taiwanese) and mixed (Chinese/Taiwanese) identities but also a global identity as well.