Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule, 1895-1945 : history, culture, memory / edited by Liao Ping-hui and David Der-wei Wang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Liao, Binghui.

Wang, Dewei.

Series:

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian In

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonies--Asia--History.

Colonies.

Taiwan--Civilization--20th century.

Taiwan.

Taiwan--Civilization--Japanese influences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first study of colonial Taiwan in English, this volume brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars to construct a comprehensive cultural history of Taiwan under Japanese rule. Contributors from the United States, Japan, and Taiwan explore a number of topics through a variety of theoretical, comparative, and postcolonial perspectives, painting a complex and nuanced portrait of a pivotal time in the formation of Taiwanese national identity.Essays are grouped into four categories: rethinking colonialism and modernity; colonial policy and cultural change; visual culture and literary expressions; and from colonial rule to postcolonial independence. Their unique analysis considers all elements of the Taiwanese colonial experience, concentrating on land surveys and the census; transcolonial coordination; the education and recruitment of the cultural elite; the evolution of print culture and national literature; the effects of subjugation, coercion, discrimination, and governmentality; and the root causes of the ethnic violence that dominated the postcolonial era. The contributors encourage readers to rethink issues concerning history and ethnicity, cultural hegemony and resistance, tradition and modernity, and the romancing of racial identity. Their examination not only provides a singular understanding of Taiwan's colonial past, but also offers insight into Taiwan's relationship with China, Japan, and the United States today. Focusing on a crucial period in which the culture and language of Taiwan, China, and Japan became inextricably linked, Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule effectively broadens the critique of colonialism and modernity in East Asia.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Tables

Preface

Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945: History, Culture, Memory / Ping-Hui, Liao

Part 1. Rethinking Colonialism and Modernity: Historical and Theoretical Case Studies

1. A Perspective on Studies of Taiwanese Political History: Reconsidering the Postwar Japanese Historiography of Japanese Colonial Rule in Taiwan / Masahiro, Wakabayashi

2. The Japanese Colonial State and Its Form of Knowledge in Taiwan / Jen-To, Yao

3. The Formation of Taiwanese Identity and the Cultural Policy of Various Outside Regimes / Shōzō, Fujii

4. Print Culture and the Emergent Public Sphere in Colonial Taiwan, 1895-1945 / Ping-Hui, Liao

Part 2. Colonial Policy and Cultural Change

5. Shaping Administration in Colonial Taiwan, 1895-1945 / Caroline, Ts'ai Hui-Yu

6. The State of Taiwanese Culture and Taiwanese New Literature in 1937: Issues on Banning Chinese Newspaper Sections and Abolishing Chinese Writings / Isao, Kawahara

7. Colonial Modernity for an Elite Taiwanese, Lim Bo-seng: The Labyrinth of Cosmopolitanism / Takeshi, Komagome

8. Hegemony and Identity in the Colonial Experience of Taiwan, 1895-1945 / Shiaw-Chian, Fong

Part 3. Visual Culture and Literary Expressions

9. Confrontation and Collaboration: Traditional Taiwanese Writers' Canonical Reflection and Cultural Thinking on the New-Old Literatures Debate During the Japanese Colonial Period / Mei-Er, Huang

10. Colonialism and the Predicament of Identity: Liu Na'ou and Yang Kui as Men of the World / Hsiao-Yen, Peng

11. Colonial Taiwan and the Construction of Landscape Painting / Chuan-ying, Yen

12. An Author Listening to Voices from the Netherworld: Lu Heruo and the Kuso Realism Debate / Chie, Tarumi

Part 4. From Colonial to Postcolonial: Redeeming or Recruiting the Other?

13. Reverse Exportation from Japan of the Tale of ''The Bell of Sayon'': The Central Drama Group's Taiwanese Performance and Wu Man-sha's The Bell of Sayon / Sakujirō, Shimomura

14. Gender, Ethnography, and Colonial Cultural Production: Nishikawa Mitsuru's Discourse on Taiwan / Kleeman, Faye Yuan

15. Were Taiwanese Being ''Enslaved''? The Entanglement of Sinicization, Japanization, and Westernization / Ying-Che, Huang

16. Reading the Numbers: Ethnicity, Violence, and Wartime Mobilization in Colonial Taiwan / Fix, Douglas L.

17. The Nature of Minzoku Taiwan and the Context in Which It Was Published / Micha, Wu

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231510813

0231510810

OCLC:

818856101