The Development And Impact Of Taiwan Nativism

From politics to cultural level, The development and evolution of Taiwan" Nativism" experienced a" anti-colonial-autocracy and Anti China " process. During the Japanese colonial period, political localization was the national liberation movement for resisting Japanese imperialism’s colonial rule in Taiwan; cultural localization was the new culture movement for against assimilation, especially against" Kominka ". Taiwan people against Japanese Colonial struggle is an important part of Chinese anti-colonial struggle, which produced Taiwan" Nativism"," Taiwan consciousness" budding, and has positive significance. After the retrocession of Taiwan, political localization was the democratic movement for against the Kuomintang dictatorship; cultural localization movement was the re-rising of local literature which opposed Westernization. Local literature was the most significant localization movement in the literature, famous local literature debate happened in nineteen seventies, there are related to not only the pure literature domain, but also political, economical and social problems. Since the nineteen eighties, with the loose political environment, some Taiwan scholars such as lian-de Hong, especially some left-wing intellectuals, introduced Western Marx doctrine, postcolonial, post modern ideas in the field of some important figures such as Foucault, Habermas, Derrida in "contemporary"," southern" magazines, constantly shocked at the time of the intellectual and cultural. In this process,"Nativism" played a very good role in opposing to the autocratic rule and breaking the mind, on the other hand, day by day did not accord with "China consciousness", and reached the opposite. Since the nineteen ninties, in the control of Li Denghui and Chen Shuibian, political localization was "two China","one country on each side","Taiwan independence"; cultural localization was "The de-sinolization",what made "Nativism" to the ideology of cultural hegemony and the tool for political struggle, eventually evolved into a strong recognition that Taiwan was a“Sovereign state”. As a new peaceful development of cross-straits relations established since2008, we can distinguish between "Taiwan consciousness" and "Taiwan independence consciousness", gradually reversed the public opinions which was not conducive to the peaceful reunification, and digest the social soil of "Taiwan independence".