TCP [The Contemporary Pacific], 2019 - Volume 31, Number 2
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Item type: Item , Review of Uncovering Indigenous Models of Leadership: An Ethnographic Case Study of Samoa’s Talavou Clan, by Leiataua Robert Jon Peterson(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Simanu-Klutz, LufataItem type: Item , Review of Ship of Fate: Memoir of a Vietnam- ese Repatriate, by Trần Ðình Trụ(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Hattori, Mary Theresa PerezItem type: Item , Review of Textilia Linnaeana: Global 18th Century Textile Traditions & Trade, by Viveka Hansen(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Mawyer, AlexanderItem type: Item , Review of Tikopia Collected: Raymond Firth and the Creation of Solomon Island Cultural Heritage, by Elizabeth Bonshek(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Lipset, DavidItem type: Item , Review of Crossing Spaces [documentary](University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Kim, Myjolynne MarieItem type: Item , Review of films by Jack Niedenthal(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Brislin, TomItem type: Item , Review of The Cultural Animation Film Festival(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Bennett, ElizabethItem type: Item , Review of Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature, by Teresa Shewry(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Cheslow, ErinItem type: Item , Review of Decolonisation and the Pacific: Indigenous Globalisation and the Ends of Empire, by Tracey Banivanua Mar(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Tupou, TrishItem type: Item , Review of I Hinanao-ta Nu I Manaotao Tåno’ I CHamoru Siha (The Journey of the CHamoru People) [exhibition](University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Perez, Teresita LItem type: Item , Timor-Leste in Review: Issues and Events, 2018(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Leach, MichaelItem type: Item , Solomon Islands in Review: Issues and Events, 2018(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Foukona, Joseph DanielItem type: Item , Papua New Guinea in Review: Issues and Events, 2018(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Stiefvater, JamesItem type: Item , Papua in Review: Issues and Events, 2018(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Hernawan, BudiItem type: Item , New Caledonia in Review: Issues and Events, 2018(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Chauchat, MathiasItem type: Item , Bougainville in Review: Issues and Events, 2018(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Boege, VolkerItem type: Item , Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2018(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Boege, Volker; Chauchat, Mathias; Foukona, Joseph Daniel; Hernawan, Budi; Leach, Michael; Stiefvater, JamesItem type: Item , The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2018(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Maclellan, NicItem type: Item , Robert (Bob) C Kiste: Mentor and Friend of the Pacific(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Lal, Brij VItem type: Item , Rearticulating Diplomatic Relationships: Contextualizing Tuvalu-Taiwan Relations(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Marinaccio, JessIn March 1979, Tuvalu’s government newspaper began an ongoing discussion of Tuvalu’s Asian diplomacy, highlighting the rapid development of relationships with East Asian nations like Taiwan shortly after Tuvalu’s independence in 1978. Contemporaneously, the Taiwan government began reporting on early diplomatic forays into Pacific nations, including Tuvalu. These newspaper and government reports are frequently characterized by a narrative style that suggests the complexities of Pacific-Asia relationships at the time and that provides a foundation from which more recent discourse on Tuvalu-Taiwan relations can be contextu- alized. In this paper, I adopt a Pacific studies rationale, articulation theory, and discourse analysis. I examine official Tuvaluan and Taiwanese narratives from the 1970s and 1980s to demonstrate how early diplomacy was determined not by official maneuvering but by preexisting trans-local connections. Subsequently, in analyzing Tuvaluan and Taiwanese leadership statements from 2000 to the present, I sketch how, more recently, Tuvalu and Taiwan have used each other to shape their national identities. However, I also highlight connections to earlier narratives, especially tension in Tuvaluan discourse due to fisheries conflicts with Taiwan and preoccupation in Taiwanese discourse regarding whether Taiwan is superior to Tuvalu. Finally, I demonstrate how articulations between early nar- ratives and more recent discourse foreground Tuvaluan and Pacific agency and complicate assumed Asia-Pacific power hierarchies.