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.
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- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895–1945: History, Culture, Memory: Liao Ping-Hui
- Part 1. Rethinking Colonialism and Modernity: Historical and Theoretical Case Studies
- 2. The Japanese Colonial State and Its Form of Knowledge in Taiwan Yao Jen-To
- 3. The Formation of Taiwanese Identity and the Cultural Policy of Various Outside Regimes: Fujii Shozo
- 4. Print Culture and the Emergent Public Sphere in Colonial Taiwan, 1895–1945 Liao Ping-Hui
- Part 2. Colonial Policy and Cultural Change
- 5. Shaping Administration in Colonial Taiwan, 1895–1945 Ts’ai Hui-Yu Caroline
- 6. The State of Taiwanese Culture and Taiwanese New Literature in 1937: Issues on Banning Chinese Newspaper Sections and Abolishing Chinese Writings: Kawahara Isao
- 7. Colonial Modernity for an Elite Taiwanese, Lim Bo-seng: The Labyrinth of Cosmopolitanism: Komagome Takeshi
- 8. Hegemony and Identity in the Colonial Experience of Taiwan, 1895–1945: Fong Shiaw-Chian
- 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: Huang Mei-Er
- 10. Colonialism and the Predicament of Identity: Liu Na’ou and Yang Kui as Men of the World: Peng Hsiao-Yen
- 11. Colonial Taiwan and the Construction of Landscape Painting: Yen Chuan-Ying
- 12. An Author Listening to Voices from the Netherworld: Lu Heruo and the Kuso Realism Debate: Tarumi Chie
- 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: Shimomura Sakujiro
- 14. Gender, Ethnography, and Colonial Cultural Production: Nishikawa Mitsuru’s Discourse on Taiwan: Faye Yuan Kleeman
- 15. Were Taiwanese Being ‘‘Enslaved’’? The Entanglement of Sinicization, Japanization, and Westernization: Huang Ying-Che
- 16. Reading the Numbers: Ethnicity, Violence, and Wartime Mobilization in Colonial Taiwan: Douglas L. Fix
- 17. The Nature of Minzoku Taiwan and the Context in Which It Was Published: Wu Micha
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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