Taiwan’s Mainlanders: A Diasporic Identity in Construction

摘要: This paper looks at the construction of diasporic identity in Taiwan among Mainlanders who arrived with Chiang Kai-shek conclusion World War II. In early decades Chinese Nationalist rule, which many Taiwanese perceived as colonial ethnic differences between and Native were constructed through state violence, political oppression, discrimination favour Mainlanders. With democratization, numerically dominant began to assert nationalism started question their identity. Some adopted a while others resisted change. Mainlander is primarily relationship nativist Taiwanese, but also autochtonous Taiwan’s indigenous tribes. Diaspora thus relevant not only situations immigration, processes colonialism subsequent decolonization.