ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses on the fear of communist infiltration and the need to foster a strong sense of Chinese-ness in Taiwanese children featured heavily in education during the first few decades of the postwar era, and that the worldview and values conveyed in the geography textbooks were primarily centred on the idea of a Chinese homeland. By examining the Kuomintang (KMT)-orientated 'discourse of place' in elementary textbooks, this chapter unravels the ideological webs and investigates the geographical imagination that was spun by the state. Moreover, it examines how the ideas of 'home', 'homeland' and 'country' were conveyed in elementary education, but reflect the social relations and the dominant values that existed in Taiwan at the time. To understand the correspondence between ideology, politics and place, the chapter focuses on the distorted and incomplete spatiality in education and analyzed the correlation between the changes that have taken place in education and in politics.
