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The appeals to national identity in Taiwan’s presidential campaign videos (2023)
Thesis
Chang, J.-C. The appeals to national identity in Taiwan’s presidential campaign videos. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This study challenges a common academic notion that, in Taiwan’s presidential elections, national identity is an issue independent of other campaign discourses. Previous studies have only recognised and checked how often candidates present visible ap... Read More about The appeals to national identity in Taiwan’s presidential campaign videos.

Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context: Being and Becoming (2019)
Book
Chang, B.-Y., & Lin, P.-Y. (Eds.). (2019). Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context: Being and Becoming. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429022227

Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context examines modern Taiwanese culture through the prism of global cultural interactions. Challenging the view of Taiwan as a product of transience and displacement, it highlights Taiwan’s subjectivity, viewing the i... Read More about Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context: Being and Becoming.

From ‘Free China’ to Sunny Paradise: The Worlding Process in the Magazine Tourism in Taiwan (1966–1974) (2019)
Book Chapter
Chang, B.-Y. (2019). From ‘Free China’ to Sunny Paradise: The Worlding Process in the Magazine Tourism in Taiwan (1966–1974). In B.-Y. Chang, & P.-Y. Lin (Eds.), Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context: Being and Becoming (95-110). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429022227-7

As a crucial part of the US-led Asia–Pacific security framework, and standing against communist expansion, Taiwan and its offshore islands acted as an anti-communist bulwark during the Cold War. Under the prevailing fear of communist infiltration at... Read More about From ‘Free China’ to Sunny Paradise: The Worlding Process in the Magazine Tourism in Taiwan (1966–1974).

Imaging National Landscape: Yushan, modern myth and identity in post-war Taiwan (2012)
Book Chapter
Chang, B.-Y. (2012). Imaging National Landscape: Yushan, modern myth and identity in post-war Taiwan. In B.-Y. Chang, & H. Klöter (Eds.), Imaging and Imagining Taiwan: Identity representation and cultural politics (149-169). Harrassowitz Verlag . Wiesbaden

The chapter examines the construction of a national landscape and the invention of a mythical origin for the islanders. As part of Taiwan’s nation-building project, a campaign was launched in 2001 to popularise Yushan (the highest mountain in East As... Read More about Imaging National Landscape: Yushan, modern myth and identity in post-war Taiwan.

Imaging and Imagining Taiwan: Identity representation and cultural politics (2012)
Book
Chang, B.-Y., Klöter, H., Liao, H.-H. S., Morris, A., Birtwistle, A., Liu, J. C.-H., & Lee, A. (2012). B.-Y. Chang, & H. Klöter (Eds.). Imaging and Imagining Taiwan: Identity representation and cultural politics. Harrassowitz

Since the 1990s the issue of identity has been one of the most prominent and hotly-debated topics in Taiwan Studies. A rich corpus of literature has been produced in various fields in the attempt to address this problematic issue, examining questions... Read More about Imaging and Imagining Taiwan: Identity representation and cultural politics.

Introduction (2012)
Book Chapter
Chang, B.-Y. (2012). Introduction. In B.-Y. Chang, & H. Klöter (Eds.), Imaging and Imagining Taiwan: Identity representation and cultural politics (11-14). Harrassowitz

Constructing the Motherland: Culture and the State in Taiwan (2006)
Book Chapter
Chang, B.-Y. (2006). Constructing the Motherland: Culture and the State in Taiwan. In D. Fell, H. Klöter, & B.-Y. Chang (Eds.), What has Changed? Taiwan Before and After the Change in Ruling Parties (187-206). Harrassowitz

The Rootless Movement: Taiwan’s Women’s Movement (2006)
Book Chapter
Fell, D., & Hui-chen, W. (2006). The Rootless Movement: Taiwan’s Women’s Movement. In D. Fell, B.-Y. Chang, & H. Klöter (Eds.), What has changed? Taiwan before and after the change in ruling parties. Harrassowitz