When Valleys Turned Blood Red : The Ta-pa-ni Incident in Colonial Taiwan / Paul R. Katz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katz, Paul R., author.

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Taiwan--History--1895-1945.

Taiwan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 313 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2005]

Language Note:

In English and Chinese.

Summary:

When Valleys Turned Blood Red tells the story of colonial policies and their tragic impact on local communities. The Ta-pa-ni Incident of 1915 was the largest single act of Han Chinese armed resistance during the fifty years of Taiwan's colonial era. More than a thousand villagers and Japanese were killed during the fierce fighting and thousands more were later arrested and made to stand trial. Based on detailed archival research, interviews with survivors, painstaking demographic analysis, and a thorough reading of secondary scholarship in all of the relevant languages, Paul Katz examines the significance of the Ta-pa-ni Incident by focusing on what Paul Cohen terms history's "three keys": event, experience, and myth. Katz provides a vivid description of events surrounding the uprising as well as the ways in which it has been mythologized over time. His primary emphasis, however, is on the experiences of the men and women who were caught up in the flow of history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Notes on Citation and Transliteration

Preface

Timeline

Introduction

1. Background

2. Preparations for Rebellion

3. Religion

4. The Setting

5. Discovery of Plot and Battle

6. Seek and Destroy

7. Justice?

8. Aftermath

Conclusion

Notes

Glossary

References

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-306) and index.

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ISBN:

9780824874636

0824874633

OCLC:

1024056461