| DATE: | Wednesday, September 22, 2004 |
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| TIME: | 5:00-6:30 p.m. Panel Discussion 6:30 p.m. Reception |
| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
| FORMAT: | Panel Discussion |
| SPONSOR: | Institute of East Asian Studies |
Join us for an in-depth look at the politics of national identity in Taiwan. Speakers will address the role played by economic, cultural and demographic change, migration, as well as domestic and international political influences in shaping perceptions of citizenship on the island. How do Han ethnic identity, Chinese national identity and a new Taiwanese identity forged in the 1990s play out in contemporary Taiwan? Do ethnic cleavages always translate into domestic political divisions? How have PRC policies and the international balance of power changed the views of Taiwan’s electorate?
Melissa Brown
Dr. Brown teaches in the Department of Anthropological Sciences at Stanford University. Her research focuses on changing ethnic identities in Taiwan and China. She is the author of the new book Is Taiwan Chinese? The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities.
Lowell Dittmer
Dr. Dittmer is Professor in the Political Science Department at UC Berkeley. His scholarly expertise is the study of contemporary China. His current research interests include the China-Taiwan-US triangle. He is the editor of the Asian Survey. The journal's most recent issue is devoted to the Taiwan identity question.
Jing Huang
Dr. Huang is a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. The author of a book and numerous articles on PRC elite politics and the military, he is an expert on security issues in the Asian Pacific region, especially PRC policy towards Taiwan.
Anru Lee
Professor Lee teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. Her research focuses on modern Taiwan society. She is the author of In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity: Labor and Gender Politics in Taiwan's Economic Restructuring.
Chaired by Thomas Gold
Professor Gold teaches in the Sociology Department at UC Berkeley and serves as Executive Director of the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies. He has long been an observer of Taiwan politics and is currently working on a book manuscript, Remaking Taiwan: Society and the State Since the End of Martial Law.
