| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 政治學研究所 === 102 === The purpose of this thesis is discussed whether Taiwanese people affected the influence of China''s rise change their own state identity temporarily or not. And add generation difference as control variable for analysis. The thesis tries to employ experimental designs, and selects three situations of China’s rise as experimental treatments. They are respectively political democratization, economic development, and technological progress. How to categorize generation is another issue. Many studies categorize generations with major historical events in Taiwan, but most of these events are consistent with Democratization processes in Taiwan. Therefore, we adopt democratization processes in Taiwan as generation classification standard, and select 12 years old as divided age.
In general, the evidences present that the effect of political democratization is significant, driving people to identify “Taiwan is a part of China” much more. As to generation difference, after giving situation of “economic in China is getting more developmental”, for democratization generation (born after 1975), the proportion of “There is one country on each side” is significantly increasing. Giving situation of “China will be democratized politically” otherwise primes the proportion of “Taiwan is a part of China” raised for liberalization generation (born during 1959-1975). Regarding authoritarian generation (born before 1959), no matter what kind of situation provided, they still maintain stable state identity, without any change.
These results reveal that China’s long term strategy of unification doesn’t work. Chinese central government tried to influence Taiwanese people’s state identity via economic incentives, nonetheless Taiwanese people don’t accept it. Unless China will be democratized in one day, that could change Taiwanese people''s state identity.
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