Synopses & Reviews
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.
About the Author
Andrew D. 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. Left Behind in Postcolonial Taiwan
Andrew Morris (California Polytechnic State University, USA)
Part I: Making Japanese Taiwan2. Colonial Itineraries: Japanese Photography in Taiwan
Joseph Allen (University of Minnesota, USA)3. The Invention of Primitive Society in Japanese Taiwan: Gifts, Feasts and Trade in the History of Aborigine-Outsider Relations, 1867-1917
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 Shepherd (University of Virginia, USA)
Part II: Remembering Japanese Taiwan6. Closing a Colony: The Meanings of Japanese Deportation from Taiwan after World War II
Evan 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 Morris9. 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: Japanese and American Models of Cultural Space in Taiwan's Coffee Shop
Marc L. Moskowitz (University of South Carolina, USA)Index