Remarks on the Existence of a Senatorial Property Qualification in the Republic
Quelle: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/fsv/histori/2019/00000068/00000003/art00002
Archiv für Juni 2019
„Ionian Migration“ vs. „Great Colonization of the Greeks“: Categories and Consequences
Quelle: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/fsv/histori/2019/00000068/00000003/art00001
Women’s Labour, Kinship, and Economic Changes in Jinmen in the Era of Authoritarian Rule
This article uses the life stories of three women in Jinmen to demonstrate women’s economic agency in bettering the livelihood of their families in circumstances largely shaped by Cold War geopolitics and the authoritarian state’s military strategies. …
Learning to Drink Sorghum Liquor: Taste and Consumption in Military Front-Line Jinmen, Taiwan
This article asks why sorghum liquor, once a drink choice representing the taste of a dominant class, became a token of Jinmen identity among the islands’ dominated local population. Being a Cold War battlefield, war-stricken Jinmen became a symbol of …
Authoritarianism in the Living Room: Everyday Disciplines, Senses, and Morality in Taiwan’s Military Villages
With the nationalist government – Kuomintang (KMT) – retreating from mainland China in 1949, some 600,000 military personnel relocated to Taiwan. The military seized former Japanese colonial properties and built its own settlements, establishing tempor…
The Wartime Regime and the Development of Public Diet in Taiwan (1947–1950s)
The Nationalist Party retreated to Taiwan in 1949 after its defeat in the Chinese Civil War. Faced with a population explosion, economic recession, and a serious shortage of resources, the Nationalist government retained the “wartime regime” instituted…
Puppets, Compatriots, and Souls in Heaven: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Chiang Kai-shek’s Early Wartime Rhetoric
The study adopts a critical discourse analysis approach to Chiang Kai-shek’s (CKS) internal nationalist propaganda and authoritarian discourse practices, investigating his New Year and National Day speeches in the 1950s. Authoritarian characteristics a…
Saving the Nation by Sacrificing Your Life: Authoritarianism and Chiang Kai-shek’s War for the Retaking of China
This article examines the role assigned to citizens by the ideology of authoritarianism in the relationship between Chiang Kai-shek’s war to retake mainland China and the wartime regime constructed for fighting that war. Viewing Chiang’s ambition of re…
Censorship and Publication Control in Early Post-War Taiwan: Procedures and Practices
This article explores how state institutions and party organs of the Kuomintang used various means of exercising power and projecting authority in order to shape the literary scene and literary production in Taiwan during the early post-war period (194…
No Distant Memory: Rethinking the State, Its Citizens, and Authoritarianism in Everyday Life
Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 2/2018: The Making and Operation of Everyday Authoritarianism in Taiwan during the Cold War