Japanese Taiwan: Colonial Rule and its Contested Legacy

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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. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Part One: Making Japanese Taiwan 1. Introduction: Living as Left Behind in Postcolonial Taiwan 2. Colonial Itineraries: Japanese Photography in Taiwan 3. Tangled up in Red: Textiles, Trading Posts, and the Emergence of Indigenous Modernity in Japanese Taiwan 4. Making Natives: Japan and the Creation of Indigenous Formosa 5. Ethnicity, Mortality, and the Shinchiku (Xinzhu) Advantage in Colonial Taiwan Part Two: Remembering Japanese Taiwan 6. Closing a Colony: The Meanings of Japanese Deportation from Taiwan after World War II 7. Ethnic Diversity, Two-Layered Colonization, and Complex Modern Taiwanese Attitudes toward Japan 8. Oh Sadaharu/Wang Zhenzhi and the Possibility of Chineseness in 1960s Taiwan 9. Haunted Island: Reflections on the JapaneseColonial Era in Taiwanese Cinema 10. Reliving the Past: The Narrative Themes of Repetitionand Continuity in Japan–Taiwan News Coverage 11. Drinking Modernity: Sexuality and the Sanitation of Space in Taiwan’s Coffee Shops Glossary Bibliography Index