The Sunflower Movement marked the entrance of a new generation of Taiwanese young people onto the stage of world history
The sharp distinction between Sunflower Movement participants and older forms of Taiwanese identity is that young people today orient towards an open, pluralistic form of civic nationalism
Taiwanese identity played a major role in the Sunflower Movement, but the movement also represented something new in terms of Taiwanese identity
As an event which marked a generation's coming of age, the Sunflower Movement led to no small amount of intergenerational conflict
