THE TAIWANESE SELF-IMAGE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 2004: POLITICAL RHETORIC AND CREATION OF A NEW IDENTITY

• Authors: Zemanek Bogdan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the paper is to describe, through the text analysis, how the media allied with the pro-independence elites have been describing the Taiwanese - seen as a whole - during the presidential campaign of 2004. The analyzed materials came from the two main pro-independence dailies, namely the Chinese language Ziyou Shibao (Liberty Times) and the English language Taipei Times. The author concludes that within the analyzed collection of articles, the question of lack of cultural markers of Taiwanese identity was commonly mentioned. Within the analyzed texts some attempts to create a Taiwanese group (nation) images had been made. If the Taiwanese as a group or nation were seen as lacking precise cultural traits, nevertheless they seemed to be a politically defined group. The author concludes with a statement that since the separate Taiwanese culture was not perceived as a group marker, the boundary between Taiwanese and the Chinese had to be built on something else. This boundary was thus created following de facto (but not de iure) political border between the PRC and the ROC.

Keywords

EN

POLITICAL RHETORIC; TAIWAN POLITICS; TAWIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

Discipline

• POLITICAL_SCIENCES: POLITICAL SCIENCES

• Publisher: Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
• Journal: Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 20
• Pages: 133-147
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zemanek Bogdan

• Bogdan Zemanek, Jagiellonian University, Department of Orient Studies, ul. Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland:

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA066119