Japanese Taiwan
Colonial Rule and its Contested Legacy
Published on 30. July 2015
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-4725-7672-9 (ISBN)
Description
Colonial agents worked for fifty years to make a Japanese Taiwan, using technology, culture, statistics, trade, and modern ideologies to remake their new territory according to evolving ideas of Japanese empire. Since the end of the Pacific War, this project has been remembered, imagined, nostalgized, erased, commodified, manipulated, idealized and condemned by different sectors of Taiwan's population.
The volume covers a range of topics, including colonial-era photography, exploration, postwar deportation, sport, film, media, economic planning, contemporary Japanese influences on Taiwanese popular culture, and recent nostalgia for and misunderstandings about the colonial era.
Japanese Taiwan provides an interdisciplinary perspective on these related processes of colonization and decolonization, explaining how the memories, scars and traumas of the colonial era have been utilized during the postwar period. It provides a unique critique of the 'Japaneseness' of the erstwhile Chinese Taiwan, thus bringing new scholarship to bear on problems in contemporary East Asian politics.
The volume covers a range of topics, including colonial-era photography, exploration, postwar deportation, sport, film, media, economic planning, contemporary Japanese influences on Taiwanese popular culture, and recent nostalgia for and misunderstandings about the colonial era.
Japanese Taiwan provides an interdisciplinary perspective on these related processes of colonization and decolonization, explaining how the memories, scars and traumas of the colonial era have been utilized during the postwar period. It provides a unique critique of the 'Japaneseness' of the erstwhile Chinese Taiwan, thus bringing new scholarship to bear on problems in contemporary East Asian politics.
Reviews / Votes
This is a sophisticated and groundbreaking collection of essays that positions Taiwan in the context of colonial and postcolonial studies. Anyone with an interest in modern East Asian politics and history will benefit from it. * Jordan Sand, Professor of Japanese History, Georgetown University, USA *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
20 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
578 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4725-7672-9 (9781472576729)
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Person
Andrew D. Morris is Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University, USA. He is author of Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan (2010) and Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China (2004).
Content
Introduction
1. Living As Left Behind in Postcolonial Taiwan Andrew D. Morris (California Polytechnic State University, USA)
Part I: Making Japanese Taiwan
2. Colonial Itineraries: Japanese Photography in Taiwan Joseph R. Allen (University of Minnesota, USA)
3. Tangled up in Red: Textiles, Trading Posts and the Emergence of Indigenous Modernity in Japanese Taiwan Paul D. Barclay (Lafayette College, USA)
4. Making Natives: Japan and the Creation of Indigenous Formosa Scott Simon (University of Ottawa, Canada)
5. Ethnicity, Mortality and the Shinchiku (Xinzhu) Advantage in Colonial Taiwan John R. Shepherd (University of Virginia, USA)
Part II: Remembering Japanese Taiwan
6. Closing a Colony: The Meanings of Japanese Deportation from Taiwan after World War II Evan N. Dawley (Goucher College, USA)
7. Ethnic Diversity, Two-Layered Colonization and Modern Taiwanese Attitudes toward Japan Chih Huei Huang (Academa Sinica, Taiwan)
8. Oh Sadaharu / Wang Zhenzhi and the Possibility of Chineseness in 1960s Taiwan Andrew D. Morris
9. Haunted Island: Reflections on the Japanese Colonial Era in Taiwanese Cinema Corrado Neri (Jean Moulin University Lyon 3, France)
10. Reliving the Past: The Narrative Themes of Repetition and Continuity in Japan-Taiwan News Coverage Jens Sejrup (Lund University, Sweden)
11. Drinking Modernity: Sexuality and the Sanitation of Space in Taiwan's Coffee Shops Marc L. Moskowitz (University of South Carolina, USA)
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
1. Living As Left Behind in Postcolonial Taiwan Andrew D. Morris (California Polytechnic State University, USA)
Part I: Making Japanese Taiwan
2. Colonial Itineraries: Japanese Photography in Taiwan Joseph R. Allen (University of Minnesota, USA)
3. Tangled up in Red: Textiles, Trading Posts and the Emergence of Indigenous Modernity in Japanese Taiwan Paul D. Barclay (Lafayette College, USA)
4. Making Natives: Japan and the Creation of Indigenous Formosa Scott Simon (University of Ottawa, Canada)
5. Ethnicity, Mortality and the Shinchiku (Xinzhu) Advantage in Colonial Taiwan John R. Shepherd (University of Virginia, USA)
Part II: Remembering Japanese Taiwan
6. Closing a Colony: The Meanings of Japanese Deportation from Taiwan after World War II Evan N. Dawley (Goucher College, USA)
7. Ethnic Diversity, Two-Layered Colonization and Modern Taiwanese Attitudes toward Japan Chih Huei Huang (Academa Sinica, Taiwan)
8. Oh Sadaharu / Wang Zhenzhi and the Possibility of Chineseness in 1960s Taiwan Andrew D. Morris
9. Haunted Island: Reflections on the Japanese Colonial Era in Taiwanese Cinema Corrado Neri (Jean Moulin University Lyon 3, France)
10. Reliving the Past: The Narrative Themes of Repetition and Continuity in Japan-Taiwan News Coverage Jens Sejrup (Lund University, Sweden)
11. Drinking Modernity: Sexuality and the Sanitation of Space in Taiwan's Coffee Shops Marc L. Moskowitz (University of South Carolina, USA)
Glossary
Bibliography
Index