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Law and Politics of the Taiwan Sunflower and Hong Kong Umbrella Movements, edited by Brian Christopher Jones, Routledge, 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.libproxy.newschool.edu/lib/newschool/detail.action?docID=4831518.

Meyer, Mahlon. Remembering China from Taiwan : Divided Families and Bittersweet Reunions after the Chinese Civil War, Hong Kong University Press, 2012. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.libproxy.newschool.edu/lib/newschool/detail.action?docID=877744.

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Taiwan’s Struggle : Voices of the Taiwanese, edited by Shyu-tu Lee, and Jack F. Williams, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.libproxy.newschool.edu/lib/newschool/detail.action?docID=1637322.

I grew up in China, officially called the People’s Republic of China, where almost every teenager of my generation living in the city grew up watching Taiwan TV shows and listening to Taiwanese singers’ songs, everyone would tell you Taiwan founded as Republic of China, is a province of China. It’s a right thing and almost a common sense in mainland China to think China would take back Taiwan one day. However, after I grew up and went to college, I realized that this issue is so complex, and I don’t really know Taiwan as much as I thought, and I don’t even know any Taiwanese people. So “the Other” that I want to explore is Taiwanese, though the topic is really sensitive. I tend to be objective in doing research about Taiwan, I want to break all kinds of stereotypes that I had.

In my research I learned that both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese hold many stereotypes and misunderstanding of each other. According to polls, most Taiwanese think that they are not Chinese but Taiwanese, Taiwan is an independent country. According to my 18 years’ experience living in China and my recent interview with my Chinese friends, in eyes of mainland Chinese, Taiwanese are compatriots, and Taiwan logically belongs to China. I haven’t got a chance to talk to a Taiwanese, but from other people’s interview and social media, young generation of Taiwanese hate to be called Chinese. The issue involves complex history, politics, culture, national identity, and self-identity. But overall, it’s a political fight between Communist Party of China and Taiwan government. I also learned that younger generation of Taiwanese citizen’s overall attitude towards China is negative because of their negative attitude towards Communist Party who makes a dictatorial government in China. Taiwanese government compiles history textbook that don’t include some important information. I used to think that history is unbiased, but now I found out when some information is wiped off intentionally, that forms a bias, but what about the truth? It’s all propaganda. The media’s portray on mainland China shapes the stereotypes of mainland China. There are lots of conflicts between people of mainland China and Taiwan. They may not have identity of Chinese but we all speak Chinese and have same root so both side acknowledge the shared ethnic origin background.