Wu, Chun-YingLiu, Amy H.2024-09-042024-09-042024Wu CY, Liu AH. State institutions in North Taiwan versus South Taiwan: Hokkien language recognition. In: Liu AH, Selway J, editors. State institutions, civic associations, and identity demands: regional movements in greater southeast Asia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press; 2024. p. 38-55.97804720760799780472056071http://hdl.handle.net/10230/61011While the previous chapter emphasized how state exclusion resulted in separation, in this chapter, we see how political representation yielded an outcome that is less extreme. During the authoritarian period, the Kuomintang (KMT) imposed a repressive Mandarin-only policy. Yet as the country democratized in the early 1990s, the homogeneity of South Taiwan pulled the KMT to make linguistic concessions to its own Hokkien-speaking locals (benshengren). But this is only half the story. In North Taiwan, where the population has always been more heterogeneous, demographic shifts over several decades pushed the KMT away from repressive monolingualism.application/pdfeng© 2024 by Amy H. Liu and Joel Sawat Selway. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Note to users: A Creative Commons license is only valid when it is applied by the person or entity that holds rights to the licensed work. Works may contain components (e.g., photographs, illustrations, or quotations) to which the rightsholder in the work cannot apply the license. It is ultimately your responsibility to independently evaluate the copyright status of any work or component part of a work you use, in light of your intended use. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Taiwan -- Política i governInstitucions públiques -- TaiwanXinès -- Dialectes -- TaiwanTaiwan -- Política lingüísticainfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess