Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895–1945

CONTENTS

List of Figures

List of Tables

Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895–1945:

History, Culture, Memory

Part 1. Rethinking Colonialism and Modernity:

Historical and Theoretical Case Studies

1. A Perspective on Studies of Taiwanese Political History: Reconsidering the Postwar Japanese Historiography of Japanese Colonial Rule in Taiwan

WAKABAYASHI MASAHIRO

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

3. The Formation of Taiwanese Identity and the Cultural Policy of Various Outside Regimes

4. Print Culture and the Emergent Public Sphere in Colonial Taiwan, 1895–1945

Part 2. Colonial Policy and Cultural Change

5. Shaping Administration in Colonial Taiwan, 1895–1945

TS’AI HUI-YU CAROLINE

6. The State of Taiwanese Culture and Taiwanese New Literature in 1937: Issues on Banning Chinese Newspaper Sections and Abolishing Chinese Writings

7. Colonial Modernity for an Elite Taiwanese, Lim Bo-seng: The Labyrinth of Cosmopolitanism

KOMAGOME TAKESHI

8. Hegemony and Identity in the Colonial Experience of Taiwan, 1895–1945

FONG SHIAW-CHIAN

Part 3. Visual Culture and Literary Expressions

9. Confrontation and Collaboration: Traditional Taiwanese Writers’ Canonical Reflection and Cultural Thinking on the New-Old Literatures Debate During the Japanese Colonial Period

10. Colonialism and the Predicament of Identity: Liu Na’ou and Yang Kui as Men of the World

11. Colonial Taiwan and the Construction of Landscape Painting

12. An Author Listening to Voices from the Netherworld: Lu Heruo and the Kuso Realism Debate

Part 4. From Colonial to Postcolonial: Redeeming or Recruiting the Other?

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

SHIMOMURA SAKUJIRŌ

14. Gender, Ethnography, and Colonial Cultural Production: Nishikawa Mitsuru’s Discourse on Taiwan

FAYE YUAN KLEEMAN

15. Were Taiwanese Being “Enslaved”? The Entanglement of Sinicization, Japanization, and Westernization

16. Reading the Numbers: Ethnicity, Violence, and Wartime Mobilization in Colonial Taiwan

17. The Nature of Minzoku Taiwan and the Context in Which It Was Published

Notes on Contributors