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Building And Splitting Of Consensus

Posted on:2017-02-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X D WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2296330485470906Subject:International relations
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Because of dissatisfaction with Ching-Chung Chang, the "members of the Legislative Yuan"of KMT, declared the "Cross-Strait Agreement on Trade in Services" was passed with thirty seconds, the youths and NGOs of Taiwan occupied "Legislative Yuan"in march 18,2014. This movement called "sunflower movement", which continued 23 days, is the largest scale and most far-reaching social movement in recent years in Taiwan, and at least forced the authorities reaffirm the agreement. Social movement organizers used the main frame as a basis of consensus mobilization, and gather together the groups widely, that are in different position and interests. The contents of the main frame reflects some changes in Taiwan society now, which also was widespread-concerning issues. It is not only universal, but also particular. Taiwan was facing the crises brought by Neoliberalism, such as wealth gap-widening, social class-solidifying, low birthrate and aging society issues, which at least resulted in the rise of Left-Wing Political Thought in Taiwan; On the other hand, due to the special historical and geographical, Taiwan also face the "China factor" all the time.The main frame reflected the anxiety in society, is crucial to mobilize different groups and individuals to participate in this movement. However, as result of defect discourse of Neo-left, and closure of discourse caused by movement-organizing, the non coordination of the universality of the main frame in the micro level, the cohesion of consensus was split in the later time. Such as, slave labor area, group of social sciences school, liberated area of doggery and dachanghua forum.Thesis is divided into five parts. The first part is an introduction, which describes the research project, and existing researches related to "sunflower movement". The second part describes "frame theory", which would be used to analysis the consensus in "Sunflower movement". The third part, by the texts exit in "Sunflower movement", analysis what formed an important basis for consensus-main frame. The fourth part is to analysis the results for consensus-splitting. The final party summarizes the ideas in this paper and extends some thinking.
Keywords/Search Tags:Main frame, Left-wing, China factor, Consensus-building, Consensus-splitting
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