Is "Taiwan" a psychoanalytic creation?
The rise of Taiwanese nationalism in the late 1980s and early 1990s that rapidly, radically, but "peacefully" replaced Chinese nationalism to become the hegemonic discourse in two decades is a political "miracle." My paper argues that this compressed political transformation would not have been poss...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 243 - 261 |
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Apr2024
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