"Taiwan Independence" Discussion In Political Struggles

Since the 1980s,the non-party movement has swept across the island,and opposition forces have launched a fierce attack on the Kuomintang's authoritative rule,pushing Taiwan society to break through political taboos and enter a period of political transformation in a short time.Non-party magazines play an important role in the non-party movement,which has always been in line with the development of the non-party movement and is the main media for non-party people to publicize their political appeals and mobilize the masses.After the establishment of the Democratic Progressive Party(DPP,in Taiwan Province),the DPP still attaches great importance to the role of magazines.The academic circle has made great achievements in the research of the magazine of non-party politics.When the DPP was founded,The New Culture was one of the few cultural magazines that conveyed political appeals from the cultural level.The New Culture has a close relationship with DPP.By analyzing a series of malicious "de-sinicization Taiwan independence" cultural discourse and blatantly fabricating "Taiwan nationalism" theory in the magazine,we can sort out the basic path of the cultural discourse launched by DPP in the early stage,and also understand that Taiwan democratization takes "Taiwan independence" forward.The first chapter narrates the development of the non-party movement and the founding of The New Culture.The rapid development of the non-party movement created a pretty relaxed environment for the publication of The New Culture.The magazine was founded in the period of Taiwan's political transition,which is of great political significance.The second chapter reveals that The New Culture,in the process of criticizing the kuomintang dictatorship,maliciously vilified "Chinese culture" and proposed to construct the so-called "new and independent Taiwan new culture",is the early expression of "cultural independence",and then unmask the essence of the magazine's radical cultural discourse to cooperate with the DPP's political movement.The third chapter demonstrates the The New Culture's political stand of "Taiwan independence" orientation by interpreting the related remarks advocating "Taiwan nationalism" ideological trend.The magazine attempts to forcibly sever the historical ties between the mainland and Taiwan,fabricates a kind of "Taiwan national identity",mobilizes the public to participate in the opposition movement,and even puts on a legal cloak for the "Taiwan independence" movement.Through the detailed discussion and study of the The New Culture,draw a conclusion:Under the scheme of DPP personages and some Taiwanese intellectuals,The New Culture's cultural discourse is closely centered on the political movement,and the magazine has become the front position for DPP to carry out cultural mobilization.The magazine,s one-sided interpretation of the cultural connotation from a political perspective is a misinterpretation and malicious slander of Chinese culthre,and the public dissemination of the "Taiwan independence" statement also does great harm to the peaceful reunification of the two sides of the Taiwan straits.The study of The New Culture not ouly provides an analysis of the strategy of cultural mobilization at the beginning of the founding of the DPP,but also provides a detailed historical evidence for the background of the wide spread of the countercurrent of "Taiwan Independence" in the mid and late 1980s.It also has important reference value for the future work of anti-independence and promoting unification.