1. Introduction
1.1 The people, language, and history: an outline
1.2 Contemporary scholarship on nationalism and the study of Taiwanese nationalism
1.3 Dominated ethnic groups, nationalism and humanist intellectuals
1.4 Cultural nationalism and political nationalism
1.5 The politics of cultural uniqueness
1.6 Modernization ideology and cultural nationalism
1.7 The question of dissemination channels
1.8 The organization of the book
2. Japanese colonialism and literary and linguistic reforms in colonial Taiwan
2.1 Japanese colonialism and Taiwanese resistance in the 1920s
2.2 Japanese linguistic assimilationism
2.3 Literary and linguistic reforms in colonial Taiwan
2.4 Conclusion
3. Postwar linguistic problems, literary development, and the debate on Hsiang-t'u Literature
3.1 Early Mainlander-Taiwanese contact and the linguistic problem
3.2 Early KMT rule and the 2-28 incident
3.3 The 1947-49 literary discussion
3.4 KMT rule in the 1950s and 1960s
3.5 Combat literature, KMT ideology, and the development of modernist literature in the 1950s and 1960s
3.6 The debate on 'Hsiang-t'u' literature
3.7 Conclusion
4. Crafting a national literature
4.1 Native Taiwanese writers in the 1950s
4.2 The early history of Taiwan literature and Li Poetry Magazine
4.3 KMT rule and the rising of the Taiwanese opposition movement in the 1970s
4.4 The debate on Taiwanese consciousness and 'Hsiang-t'u' literature
4.5 Ch'en Ying-Chen, Yeh Shih-T'ao, and 'Hsiang-t'u' literature: 'pro-China' versus 'pro-Taiwan'
4.6 'De-Sinocizing' Taiwanese literature: the first half of the 1980s
4.7 Political changes since 1986
4.8 Crafting a national culture: the second half of the 1980s and after
4.9 Crafting a national literature
4.10 Conclusion
5. Crafting a national language
5.1 The official language policy and its consequences
5.2 Crafting a national language
5.3 The Hoklo writing system and Taiwanese nationalism
5.4 Hoklo literature and Taiwanese literature redefined: bringing language in
5.5 Conclusion
6. Crafting a national history
6.1 KMT rule and the pro-China view of history
6.2 The development of the pro-Taiwan view of history and Taiwanese nationalism
6.3 Conclusion
7. Conclusion
7.1 Taiwanese nationalism as an historical 'latecomer'
7.2 Taiwanese cultural nationalism reconsidered