Blogger Ed en Vadrouille said in a comment on another post....++++++++++
........I received an invitation from the "Centre of French Studies on Modern China" (CEFC) for a conference entitled "Interpretation of Taiwanese history in the Post-colonial era".
I will stress out the "Post-Colonial era" which I found very telling.
The email goes on about how since the end of the martial law a new collective conscience has emerged and has tried to provide a new reading of history in line with "the community of shared fates" Taiwanese want to be.
If any of you happen to understand French and are interested in the topic, it is taking place on the 23rd of March at 2.30pm, in the room B-202 of the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, at the Academia Sinica.
You can contact cefc(@)gate.sinica.edu.tw for more info.
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[Taiwan]
Wow, you're quick!
ReplyDeleteI usually prefer to be refered to my address http://ed.roquette.free.fr, but this is of little importance.
My first intention in posting this was to point out that you were certainly not the only foreigner believing that Taiwan is slowly coming out of a colonial heritage.
However I was surprised to see that the CEFC is a public institute, funded by our Ministry of Foreign Affairs, specially since this terminology denote a strong political connotation.
(More info on the CEFC: http://www.france.com.hk/mmm/fchk/index.jsp?id=176&menuitem=3&red=16)