Lee Teng-hui and Taiwanese Identity
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Maehara, Shiho
Abstract
This dissertation focuses on former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui’s influence on the development of Taiwanese National Identity. While presiding over major advancements in democratic reforms in Taiwan, Lee has also promoted Taiwanese localization movements and has played a leading role in the smooth transition from Chinese Nationalism, which was promoted in Kuomintang (KMT) era, to Taiwanese Nationalism. The opinion of the Taiwanese has always continued to change, reflecting the problem of national identity that is easily affected by political, economic, and diplomatic circumstances with Mainland China; however, according to polls conducted by the Mainland Affairs Council and academic institutions such as National Chengchi University and the Academia Sinica, there has been a growth in the number of people identifying themselves as Taiwanese, and its pronounced growth has mainly occurred in the 1990s, during Lee Teng-hui ‘s term of office. I believe that Lee Teng-hui’s democratic political reform and his statements in the 1990s have been precisely influential over the development of Taiwanese identity, particularly his official statements guided in Taiwanese that express and discuss openly about their identity after the long-term restrictions on free speech under martial law. When analyzing Lee’s statements, I also divided the analysis into three periods (1998-1996, 1996-2000, and 2000-present). Characteristic changes of his statements are seen in each of the three periods. The first watershed was in 1996, when the first direct presidential election was held and Lee was chosen as president. The second one was in 2000, the time Lee became an official to a private; it is also when Chen Shui-bian was elected as a president, resulting in Lee’s stepping down as both president as well as the chairman of the KMT. In addition to this analysis, I had an interview with Lee Teng-hui to understand more about his political thought and his intentions of his significant statements he has given in the past.
Subjects
李登輝
台灣認同
國家認同
中華民國的中國人認同
台灣Nationalism
李登輝言論集
Type
thesis
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