Becoming Japanese Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation

Name: Becoming Japanese Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation
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ISBN: 9780520225534

ISBN-10: 0520225538

ISBN-13: 9780520225534

Edition: 2001

Authors: Leo T. S. Ching

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In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. For the next fifty years, Japanese rule devastated and transformed the entire socioeconomic and political fabric of Taiwanese society. InBecoming Japanese,Leo Ching examines the formation of Taiwanese political and cultural identities under the dominant Japanese colonial discourse of assimilation (docirc;ka) and imperialization (kocirc;minka) from the early 1920s to the end of the Japanese Empire in 1945. Becoming Japaneseanalyzes the ways in which the Taiwanese struggled, negotiated, and collaborated with Japanese colonialism during the cultural practices of assimilation and…

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List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/30/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 263
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Those Who Once Were "Japanese"



Colonizing Taiwan: Japanese Colonialism, Decolonization, and the Politics of Colonialism Studies



Entangled Oppositions: Affiliations, Identities, and Political Movements in Colonial Taiwan



Between Assimilation and Imperialization: From Colonial Projects to Imperial Subjects



From Mutineers to Volunteers: The Musha Uprising and Aboriginal Representations of Savagery and Civility



"Into the Muddy Stream": Triple Consciousness and Colonial Historiography in The Orphan of Asia


Notes


Bibliography


Index