Culture of Taiwan

Sky Lantern festival in Pingxi, Taiwan

Culture of Taiwan
Traditional Chinese臺灣文化
Simplified Chinese台湾文化
Literal meaningTaiwanese culture
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinTáiwān wénhuà
Southern Min
Hokkien POJTâi-oân bûn-hoà

The culture of Taiwan is a blend of Han Chinese and indigenous Taiwanese cultures.[1] Despite the overwhelming Chinese cultural influence and minority indigenous Taiwanese cultural influence, Japanese culture has significantly influenced Taiwanese culture as well.[2] The common socio-political experience in Taiwan gradually developed into a sense of Taiwanese cultural identity and a feeling of Taiwanese cultural awareness, which has been widely debated domestically.[3][4][5]

Reflecting the continuing controversy surrounding the political status of Taiwan, politics continues to play a role in the conception and development of a Taiwanese cultural identity, especially in the prior dominant frame of a Taiwanese and Chinese dualism. In recent years, the concept of Taiwanese multiculturalism has been proposed as a relatively apolitical alternative view, which has allowed for the inclusion of mainlanders and other minority groups into the continuing re-definition of Taiwanese culture as collectively held systems of meaning and customary patterns of thought and behavior shared by the people of Taiwan.[6][7]

  1. ^ Huang (1994), pp. 1–5.
  2. ^ 黃文儀,《士大夫與羅漢腳》,《文教台灣》第092期
  3. ^ Yip (2004), pp. 230–248.
  4. ^ Makeham (2005), pp. 2–8.
  5. ^ Chang (2005), p. 224.
  6. ^ Hsiau (2005), pp. 125–129.
  7. ^ Winckler (1994), pp. 23–41.