The Musha Incident : a reader on the indigenous uprising in colonial Taiwan / Michael Berry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berry, Michael, 1974- author.

Series:

Global Chinese Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History in popular culture.

History in popular culture--Great Britain.

Taiwan--History--Musha Incident, 1930.

Taiwan.

Taiwan--History--Musha Incident, 1930--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Place of Publication:

Irvington : Columbia University Press, [2022]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This book brings together leading scholars to provide new perspectives on one of the most traumatic episodes in Taiwan's modern history and its fraught legacies. Contributors from a variety of disciplines revisit the Musha Incident and its afterlife in history, literature, film, art, and popular culture.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

A Note on Romanization

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Approaching Musha, by Michael Berry

Part I. Historical Memories of Musha

1. The Discourse and Practice of Colonial "Suppression" in the Making of the Musha Rebellion and Its Aftermath, by Toulouse-Antonin Roy

2. The Musha Incident and the History of Tgdaya-Japanese Relations, by Paul D. Barclay

3. Relistening to Her and His Stories: On Approaching "The Musha Incident from an Indigenous Perspective,"by Kae Kitamura

Part II. Literary Memories of Musha

4. Bodies and Violence in the Musha Incident, by Robert Tierney

5. Musha Incident, Incidentally: Tsushima Yūko's Exceedingly Barbaric, by Leo Ching

6. Satō Haruo on the Musha Incident, by Ping-hui Liao

7. Untimely Meditations: The Contemporary, the Philosophy of Walking, and Related Ethical Matters in Remains of Life, by Chien-heng Wu

Part III. Visual and Digital Memories of Musha

8. The Face of the Inbetweener: The Image of Indigenous History Researchers as Reflected in Seediq Bale, by Nakao Eki Pacidal

9. Quest for Roots: Trauma and Heroism in Wu He's Yusheng and Tang Shiang-Chu's Yusheng: Seediq Bale, by Darryl Sterk

10. Historical Representation in an Age of Wiki Writing and Digital Curation: The Musha Incident on Digital Platforms, by Kuei-fen Chiu

Part IV. Musha in Cultural Dialogue

11. Fiction and Fieldwork: In Conversation with Wu He on Remains of Life, by Michael Berry

12. Heavy Metal Headhunt: An Interview with Chthonic's Freddy Lim, by Michael Berry

13. Televising the Musha Incident: Wan Jen on the Miniseries Dana Sakura, by Michael Berry

14. No Good Guys or Bad Guys: An Interview with Wei Te-sheng, by Tony Rayns (translated by Christa Chen)

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-231-55218-1

OCLC:

1309043511