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Is Taiwan Chinese?

Published: May 1, 2021, 5:14 a.m.

Today, the Chinese Literature Podcast asks the ultimate geopolitical question: Is Taiwan Chinese?

Actually, we are looking at a book titled\xa0Is Taiwan Chinese, an anthropological study by Melissa Brown that examines how identity, Chineseness and ethnicity are constituted on both sides of the Taiwan Straits...that is just a fancy way of saying that identity is something that one does rather than something that one is. We look at Brown's exploration of that process in China and Taiwan.\xa0