From Nationalism to Nationalizing: Cultural Imagination and State Formation in Postwar Taiwan

Abstract

The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs is carrying a seres of major papers on the meaning and ramifications of Chinese nationalism. The contnbutors thus far have been Wang Gungwu (issue 23), James Townsend (issue 27), Lucian Pye (issue 29), and Prasenjit Duara (issue 30). Below, in a paper direty relevant to the broader questions of modem-day Chinese nationalism, the anthrpologist Allen Chun analyses how nationalist concepts have been reshaped and propagated in Taiwan.