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The protests over the Diaoyutai Islands issue show the complex way identity was contested by students and the KMT government, with both claiming the legitimacy to speak as Chinese. It also shows a degree of effectiveness with which the KMT had substantiated Chinese identity in Taiwan through state institutions. At the same time, as the blood petition indicates, symbols of Chinese identity, for example, from imperial history and the May Fourth movement, also had longer history than KMT rule over the island. Against this were developing “scripts” of Taiwanese identity, such as the government-in-exile and samizdat publishing that applied different symbolisms to legitimize Taiwanese identity.
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Harrison, M. (2006). New Narratives. In: Legitimacy, Meaning, and Knowledge in the Making of Taiwanese Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230601697_6
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