Selections from Research Papers on the Strategy of Alliances and Alignments

Author: Xiamen University Press
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: Lian Hong's General History of Taiwan is a systematic academic work on the history of Taiwan, and anyone interested in Taiwanese history has read it. This work can be considered a foundational text in the study of Taiwanese history and remains one of the important reference books for studying it to this day. Selected Papers on Lian Hong and His Thought focuses on compiling papers that have recently explored Lian Hong's political and academic thought. Its publication holds certain reference value for further understanding Lian Hong and General History of Taiwan.
The national spirit is ever-evolving. Contemporary scholars note that the crimes of Japanese aggression are a matter of the past generation and are unrelated to today's Japanese, yet this history cannot be forgotten. The construction projects during the Japanese colonial era in Taiwan were an "unavoidable byproduct" that the Japanese had to leave behind. This allows for a more rational and pragmatic approach to complex historical facts.
The Chinese people, who have historically suffered from humiliation, need the spirit of nationalism. However, unlike the closed, racial, exclusionary, and emotional nationalism of the past, what we need is a rational, open, pragmatic, and composed nationalism. This insight comes from the efforts of Lian Hong and later Taiwanese historians in vigorously promoting the spirit of nationalism.