Japanese Taiwan Colonial Rule and its Contested Legacy

by Morris, Andrew D.; Gerteis, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9781472576729
• ISBN10: 1472576721
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-07-30
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Andrew Morris is Professor and Chair of the History Department 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).

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Andrew Morris, Left Behind: Longing for Empire in Postcolonial Taiwan Andrew Morris (California Polytechnic State University, USA)
History: Making Japanese Taiwan
2. Colonial Itineraries: Early Japanese Photography in Taiwan Joseph Allen (University of Minnesota, USA)
3. Profits as Contagion, Production as Progress: Trading Posts, Tribute, and Feasting in the History of Japanese-Formosan Relations, 1895-1917 Paul D. Barclay (Lafayette College, USA)
4. What’s Special About Xinzhu? Ethnicity and Mortality in Japanese Period Taiwan John Shepherd (University of Virginia, USA)
5. Making Natives: Japanese Economic Planning and the Creation of Indigenous Formosa Scott Simon (University of Ottawa, Canada)
History / Contemporary: Remembering Japanese Taiwan
6. Closing a Colony: The Meanings of Japanese Deportation from Taiwan after World War II Evan Dawley (Goucher College, USA)
7. Oh Sadaharu / Wang Zhenzhi and the Possibility of Chineseness in 1960s Taiwan Andrew Morris
8. Taiwanese Attitudes toward Japan (1987-present): Complex System Phenomena Caused by Ethnic Diversity and Two-Layered Colonization Chih Huei Huang (Academa Sinica, Taiwan)
9. Reliving the Past: The Narrative Themes of Repetition and Continuity in Japan-Taiwan News Coverage Jens Sejrup (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
10. Haunted Island: Reflections on the Japanese Colonial Era in Taiwanese Cinema Corrado Neri (Jean Moulin University Lyon 3, France)
11. Drinking Modernity: Class, Gender and Sexuality in Taiwan’s Coffee Cultures Marc L. Moskowitz (University of South Carolina, USA)
Index