2. The Japanese Colonial State and Its Form of Knowledge in Taiwan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures xi
4. Tables xiii
5. Preface xv
6. Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895–1945: History, Culture, Memory 1
7. Part 1. Rethinking Colonialism and Modernity: Historical and Theoretical Case Studies
8. 1. A Perspective on Studies of Taiwanese Political History: Reconsidering the Postwar Japanese Historiography of Japanese Colonial Rule in Taiwan 19
9. 2. The Japanese Colonial State and Its Form of Knowledge in Taiwan 37
10. 3. The Formation of Taiwanese Identity and the Cultural Policy of Various Outside Regimes 62
11. 4. Print Culture and the Emergent Public Sphere in Colonial Taiwan, 1895–1945 78
12. Part 2. Colonial Policy and Cultural Change
13. 5. Shaping Administration in Colonial Taiwan, 1895–1945 97
14. 6. The State of Taiwanese Culture and Taiwanese New Literature in 1937: Issues on Banning Chinese Newspaper Sections and Abolishing Chinese Writings 122
15. 7. Colonial Modernity for an Elite Taiwanese, Lim Bo-seng: The Labyrinth of Cosmopolitanism 141
16. 8. Hegemony and Identity in the Colonial Experience of Taiwan, 1895–1945 160
17. Part 3. Visual Culture and Literary Expressions
18. 9. Confrontation and Collaboration: Traditional Taiwanese Writers’ Canonical Reflection and Cultural Thinking on the New-Old Literatures Debate During the Japanese Colonial Period 187
19. 10. Colonialism and the Predicament of Identity: Liu Na’ou and Yang Kui as Men of the World 210
20. 11. Colonial Taiwan and the Construction of Landscape Painting 248
21. 12. An Author Listening to Voices from the Netherworld: Lu Heruo and the Kuso Realism Debate 262
22. Part 4. From Colonial to Postcolonial: Redeeming or Recruiting the Other?
23. 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 279
24. 14. Gender, Ethnography, and Colonial Cultural Production: Nishikawa Mitsuru’s Discourse on Taiwan 294
25. 15. Were Taiwanese Being ‘‘Enslaved’’? The Entanglement of Sinicization, Japanization, and Westernization 312
26. 16. Reading the Numbers: Ethnicity, Violence, and Wartime Mobilization in Colonial Taiwan 327
27. 17. The Nature of Minzoku Taiwan and the Context in Which It Was Published 358
28. Notes on Contributors 389
29. Index 391