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Kondo the barbarian : A Japanese adventurer and indigenous Taiwan's bloodiest uprising / Paul D. Barclay.
LIBRA DS799.9.M8 B37 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barclay, Paul D., 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Taiwan--History--1895-1945.
- Taiwan.
- Japan--Colonies--Asia--History--20th century.
- Japan.
- Asia.
- Taiwan--History--Musha Incident, 1930.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- History
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, United Kingdom : Eastbridge books, [2023]
- Language Note:
- Text in English, memoir translated from Japanese.
- Summary:
- Kondo the Barbarian is an account of the colonial Japanese era in Taiwan, focusing on the Musha Rebellion and its brutal suppression by the Japanese military. The book presents the translated account of Kondō Katsusaburō, a Japanese adventurer who married into an indigenous Taiwanese family. Kondō's journals offer an intimate and personal perspective on the events, though they can also be unreliable and prone to sensationalism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Memoir originally appeared in the Taiwan nichinichi shinpō (Taiwan Daily news), serialized between Dec. 20, 1930 and Feb. 15, 1931.
- ISBN:
- 9781788692823
- 1788692829
- 9781788692830
- 1788692837
- OCLC:
- 1381337226
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