Introduction

Notwithstanding the Republic of China (ROC or Taiwan) has consolidated full democratization after being influenced by early colonial regimes, the United States’ intervention and over 38-year-long consecutive martial law period under the The Chinese Nationalists Chiang Kai-shek government, Taiwan has marked its international exceptionalism by continuously wrestling between identity complex in both internal politics and external vis-a-vis relationship with mainland China. This exhibit analyzes the divided stakeholder identities across the population in post-conflict Taiwan and this prevailing rhetoric that passed down the legacy igniting unrest of the continuously escalating Taiwan-strait crisis.