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Growing Taiwaneseness, Aging Chineseness: How aging shapes Taiwanese Society and its Identity
Authors: Horálek Adam
Year: 2022
Type of publication: ostatní - konference, koncert
Publisher name: University of Iceland; NIAS
Page from-to: nestránkováno
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eng Growing Taiwaneseness, Aging Chineseness: How aging shapes Taiwanese Society and its Identity Without doubts, demographic aging is one of the major social changes most developed countries are facing. This process is mostly associated with economic burdens and negative social impacts the growing elderly population is creating. However, aging can be perceived also as a life-long process. As such, societal aging is not related only to elderly population aged 60 years and over, but to the society as a whole. From macroscopic perspective, we tend to stick mainly to legal frames of aging (when we are eligible to marry, drink, drive, vote, or retire) or to culturally appropriated ages (when one is too young, too old, or just age). In both cases, culture is the source of age perception. For about three decades, Taiwan’s society is on a permanent quest for identity. Throughout the period, the predominantly Chinese society in Republic of China in Taiwan developed into predominantly Taiwanese society in Taiwan. But what the transition from Chineseness towards Taiwaneseness stands for and what role the aging society played in it? With the rapid aging of Taiwanese society, we can see the intergenerational differences in understanding what Taiwanesenes and Chineseness stand for and who the people of Taiwan are. The preferences are not only about the labels themselves, but about constitutive cultural norms and values associated with them. The paper focuses two major goals. First, on identifying values associated with Chinese and Taiwanese identity and how these values are integrated within certain age groups on case of electoral preferences. Second, how the identity-related values within the elderly population correspond to the modernization theory and marginalization of elderly within the society. aging nationalism; Chineseness; Taiwaneseness; identity; marginalization; aging society; Taiwan

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