Книга: Culture of Taiwan: Taiwanese aborigines, History of Taiwan, Taiwan under Japanese rule, History of the Kuomintang cultural policy, Taiwanization, Religion ... Taiwanese cuisine, Languages of Taiwan

The Taiwanese culture is a hybrid blend of Confucianist Han Chinese, Japanese, European, American, global, local and Taiwanese aborigines cultures, which are often perceived in both traditional and modern understandings (Harrell/Huang 1994:1?5). The common socio-political experience in Taiwan gradually developed into a sense of Taiwanese cultural identity and a feeling of Taiwanese cultural awareness, which has been widely debated domestically (Yip 2004:230- 248 Makeham 2005:2-8 Chang 2005:224). Reflecting the continuing controversy surrounding the political status of Taiwan, politics continues to play a role in the conception and development of a Taiwanese cultural identity, especially in the prior dominant frame of a Taiwanese and Chinese dualism. In recent years, the concept of Taiwanese multiculturalism has been proposed as a relatively apolitical alternative view, which has allowed for the inclusion of mainlanders and other minority groups into the continuing re-definition of Taiwanese culture as collectively held systems of meaning and customary patterns of thought and behavior shared by the people of Taiwan (Hsiau 2005:125?129) (Winckler 1994:23?41).