Séminaire de recherche, en anglais sans traduction
Mfj, salle 601
Stéphane CORCUFF (Associate professor of Political Science and chair of Chinese Studies at Lyon's Political Studies Institute)
The Island of Taiwan under the KMT administration of Ma Ying-jeou is looking for ways to circumvent the issue of sovereignty and improve relations with China, while some in Taiwan are concerned with a possible negative impact on the island's sovereignty. Is the new presidency leading a radically new approach to the island's relationship to the Continent? There seems to be a precedent: the end of the loyalist, pro-Ming, Zheng regime in the 1680s. Based on a cross-centuries compared geopolitics of the Taiwan straits, this presentation intends to show how the regimes of the Zhengs, in its last phase of the early 1680s, and of the KMT, in its present phase that started in the late 2000s, are navigating between their Chinese nationalism, the geopolitical realities and, as far as the present experience is concerned, democracy's mechanisms, in managing their new "Chinese temptation" in front of a Continental Renaissance.
