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Becoming Taiwanese : Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s-1950s / Evan N. Dawley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dawley, Evan N., author.
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 420.
- Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 420
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnicity--Taiwan--Keelung City--History--19th century.
- Ethnicity.
- Ethnicity--Taiwan--Keelung City--History--20th century.
- Nationalism--Taiwan--History.
- Nationalism.
- Keelung City (Taiwan)--Social conditions--19th century.
- Keelung City (Taiwan).
- Keelung City (Taiwan)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Japan--Colonies--Asia.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 413 pages) : illustrations, maps ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2019.
- Other Title:
- Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s-1950s
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Harvard University Asia Center, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Examines the first era of Taiwanese identity construction, the first half of the twentieth century, in a place that served as a crucible for new identities, the northern port city of Jilong (Keelung). Part colonial urban social history, part exploration of the relationship between modern ethnicity and nationalism, offering important new answers to questions of ethnic identity formation"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Building and populating a vanguard city
- "Love of city and love of self" : constructing identities in the crucible of Jilong
- "Civilization enters here" : local elites, social organizations, and the reterritorialization of Jilong
- Sacred spaces : religions and the construction of identities
- Realms of welfare : social work and border defense
- Defining new boundaries in the reconstruction of Jilong, 1945-1947
- Ethnicity, nationalism, and the re-creation of Jilong, 1945-1955
- Epilogue : History, memory, and the usage and utility of Taiwanese ethnicity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-390) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781684175987
- 1684175984
- OCLC:
- 1202475195
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9781684175987 DOI
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