History, Discourse, and Document Analysis: Consideration of Methods for an Institutional History of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission

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  • 台湾の蒙藏委員会の史的考察：言説およびドキュメント分析を通じて

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Established in 1928 in Beijing to aid in governing the disputed regions of Tibet and Mongolia, the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission (MTAC) was only officially disbanded in 2017 in Taipei, Taiwan. In its 68 years of existence on Taiwan, the MTAC produced literature on a range of subjects related to the Mongolian and Tibetan peoples and territories. Considering that the Republic of China’s (ROC) realized sovereignty was limited to Taiwan, the MTAC through its body of publications thus offers an opportunity to understand the ROC’s official imagining of national identity and statehood. This paper aims to review the project’s two-stage selection of methodology, its application and the challenges encountered by the researcher. The initial method of document analysis proved successful in delivering a basis for surveying the texts and in producing a basic narrative of the MTAC’s institutional history, but did not adequately facilitate situating the text within its historical or contemporaneous socio-political contexts. A second stage of discourse analysis called for a more critical approach that centered history. Thus, the researcher adopted a discoursehistorical approach to critical discourse analysis to reveal the influence of certain historical legacies on the shifting trends of discourse within the Commission.

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  • 飛梅論集

    飛梅論集 22 1-18, 2022-03-18

    Graduate School of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University

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