「骨肉同胞」：中華民族主義與中共針對統一台灣的種族主義之論述

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This thesis investigates racial nationalist discourse in official communications relating to Taiwan in the People's Republic of China (PRC). After reviewing the academic literature on Chinese racial nationalism from the fall of the Great Qing to the present day, this thesis adopts both qualitative and quantitative analytical approaches to text-based sources. First, a qualitative analysis of major PRC policy documents and speeches on cross-strait relations demonstrates that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s top leaders—including Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping—have all employed language possessing racial nationalist concepts such as shared bloodlines and biological lineage to form a racialized ideological justification for so-called"Taiwan reunification". This demonstrates that Beijing's main argument for its planned annexation of Taiwan is based on the ethnonationalist assumption that members of a race community ought to live in a unified political state. Second, a quantitative analysis of 3,475 documents from the joint website of the Taiwan Work Office of the CCP Central Committee and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China covering the period January 1, 1990, to January 1, 2024,presents trends in racial nationalist themes such as blood (血, xie), blood relations (胞, bao), bones and flesh (骨肉, gurou), biological family (親, qin), ancestry/lineage (祖, zu), and ethno-national community (民族, minzu) within official PRC discourse on Taiwan. This analysis demonstrates that Chinese racial nationalism has been a major ideological basis for China’s planned annexation of Taiwan since at least the late 1970s, and this racialized discourse has increased significantly and measurably under the leadership of Xi Jinping.