1990年代的台湾文学生产

1970年代中期以后台湾文学中出现的政治诗、政治小说,以反政府、反体制著称,它们是被压迫者的心声,是弱势阶层的代言人,具有强烈的在野的反叛性格。政治小说有一类是以政治诉求作为主要目标的,另一类没有明确的政治主张,只是基于作者感时忧国的精神去写政治斗争。1990年代以来,"台湾意识"成了知识分子热烈讨论的话题,随着其本土论述的加强,台湾文学的创作也成了一股不可忽视的潮流。台语文学不仅有学术层面的问题,而且还牵涉到族群和国家的认同。一些分离主义者,在"多语言文学"的遮掩下,把原本属于汉语方言的台语膨胀为独立的"民族语言",这是在有意制造北京话与台语的对立。     

海峡两岸的口述史研究与交流

1948年美国哥伦比亚大学口述历史研究室的建立,标志着现代口述史学的诞生。经过50多年的发展,口述史学已经成为历史学举足轻重的分支学科,其研究方法被广泛运用,尤其在当代中国风云人物与重大事件的研究中,显示出独特的韵味与魅力,获得巨大的成功。海峡两岸的口述史研究起步较早,互访交流始于改革开放后的80年代,近年来有着更为密切的接触,两岸口述史刊物与口述史成果的交流也获得长足发展,标志着一个新的口述史研究热潮的到来。     

台湾的金融改革及其启示

要本文在分析台湾实行金融改革动因的基础上，概述了台湾金融改革的内容，评述了台湾实行金融自由化的目的－建立区域金融中心的构想，并就这一改革给大陆带来的启示作出了思考。     

客家人在台湾政坛的“副首”角色——兼谈李登辉的族属问题

客家在台湾是人数仅少于闽南人的第二大族群,其政治热情及其表现一直令人瞩目。耐人寻味的是,历史上台湾地区不仅最高领导人无客家人担任,连最具权力或重要机关的最高长官也几乎一直由闽南人和外省人包揽,客家人只担任了其中一些副职。这种现象无论从客家在台湾的人口比例及其政治热情来衡量,还是与中外政坛相关事相相观照,似乎都不可思议,因而很值得研究和探讨。     

反“台独”的法律武器——《反分裂国家法》

近年来,岛内“台独”势力恶性发展,“台独”恶行步步升级,“台独”既践踏一个中国原则,又危害中国的核心利益。本文描述了《反分裂国家法》出台的背景,分析了它的合理性,阐述了它的意义和作用。《反分裂国家法》必将对打击“台独”的嚣张气焰,促进两岸关系和祖国统一大业的发展,对维护亚太地区的和平与稳定产生积极而深远的影响。     

台湾地区家庭教育政策法规制订实施特点及其对大陆的启示

台湾是目前世界上唯一通过正式颁布“家庭教育法”来推动家庭教育事业发展的地区。台湾地区家庭教育政策法规的制订实施对大陆地区具有重要的借鉴意义。台湾地区家庭教育政策法规的制订体系完整,并经过多次修订。台湾地区家庭教育政策法规有稳定的实施机构,有力的经费支持,整合的政府资源以及配套的活动课程。大陆地区应加快家庭教育法治化进程,成立家庭教育立法小组,立体化家庭教育服务网络,建立家庭教育经费保障机制,配套有地方特色的活动课程并重视培养家庭教育专业人才。     

Diverging Paths? A Comparative Look at Childcare Policies in Japan,South Korea and Taiwan

This article compares state policies to support childcare in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, using fuzzy set ideal type analysis to determine the nature of institutional arrangements with respect to labour, money and time provisions. We then note their implications for familialization and defamilialization in the three countries. Our analysis suggests a common pattern towards the increased use of financial support amongst the three countries over time; however, this commonality does not mean their childcare policies are converging, as the financial supports differ in focus, with Japan concentrating on familialization by valuing family care, and Korea exclusively employing policy to facilitate the use of market‐based care services. For its part, Taiwan has been strengthening familialization by increasing the leave compensation to value time off to provide care. The different labour, money and time dimensions vis‐à‐vis the familialization/defamilialization matrix suggest varying implications of institutional arrangements for gender.     

The political is the personal: women’s participation in Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement

This article examines women’s lived experiences as new activists in social movements. Taiwanese women – many of them housewives – joined the Sunflower Movement, a large-scale protest against a trade pact with China, and a related anti-nuclear movement in 2014. This study demonstrates how new women activists’ everyday political practices mutually construct the public and private spheres in the Taiwanese context. By ‘making private public’, these new activists use discourses of citizenship and maternalism to connect politics to social issues and daily life. Public participation makes these women feel empowered, and their daily actions transform politics from a set of formal, institutionalized practices to a practical fact of everyday life. This research also challenges the reproduction of a rigid private/public division in previous feminist scholarship that regards family and childcare as a separate realm that hinders women’s public participation. In a marked break from past accounts, these women don’t separate their caring responsibilities from their political actions. By focusing on new activists’ political action in and through their family and childcare, this research calls into question scholarly discussions that view maternalism primarily as a public discourse for mobilizing women or a visual strategy for collective protest. By considering the disruptive potential of all acts of mothering, this study paints a more complex and nuanced picture of women and mothers as protesters and reveals how activist women’s actions in the family and private social networks can be a central part of maternalist strategies’ radical potential.     

A comparative study of crisis communication strategies between Mainland China and Taiwan: The melamine-tainted milk powder crisis in the Chinese context

The purpose of this paper is twofold: (1) to identify and compare the crisis communication strategies (CCSs) that organizations used to respond to a congenetic melamine-tainted milk crisis in two Chinese societies (i.e., Mainland China and Taiwan), and (2) to explore the underlying political and media system reasons that led to the differences. Content analysis and discourse analysis of media coverage were used. The most significant finding is that Sanlu (a Mainland China-based organization) and KingCar (a Taiwan-based organization) demonstrated inverse pattern of the CCS adoption. Specifically, according to Coombs’ (1998) defense-accommodation continuum, Sanlu's CCSs moved from defensive to accommodative pole as time went by whereas, in contrast, KingCar started with accommodative strategies and moved towards the defensive pole gradually. Besides, the results showed that both organizations adopted denial, corrective action and apology strategies. However, on the Sanlu part, the most frequently used strategy was denial, while KingCar used justification most often. Moreover, this paper suggests that besides cultural dynamics, political and media systems also play a part in corporate selection of CCSs, and they are among the most important factors that should be taken into account to explain the differences in societies even with an identical traditional culture.     

Wang Ming-hui and Blacklist Production: the Third World/Asia turn of Taiwan’s new music production

ABSTRACT

The paper discusses the music group ‘Blacklist Production’ (also known as Blacklist Studio) that was established in the late 1980s when the Martial Law was lifted in Taiwan, and the group’s original works of music. It investigates the music composition and thinking process of Wang Ming-hui, the founder of Blacklist Production, and analyses two albums produced by the music studio, Songs of Madness (1989) and Lullaby (1996), as a way of reconsidering and reflecting the feeling process and limitations of the nativist ideology from 1989 to 1996 that took shape in Taiwan’s society. In addition, the paper also explores Wang’s musical practices through which he has tried to answer the question of ‘how to express thoughts with music’. Through the historical analysis of musical works and interviews with Wang Ming-hui, the paper suggests that ‘Taiwan’s New Music Production’ brought up and practiced by Wang and Blacklist Production is embedded with the possibility for Taiwan’s culture and imagination of modernity to ‘turn’ the referent point to the Third World/Asia.