Becoming "Japanese": Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation Paperback - 2001 - 1st Edition
by Leo T. 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. In Becoming "Japanese", Leo Ching examines the formation of Taiwanese political and cultural identities under the dominant Japanese colonial discourse of assimilation (doka) and imperialization (kominka) from the early 1920s to the end of the Japanese Empire in 1945.
Becoming "Japanese" analyzes the ways in which the Taiwanese struggled, negotiated, and collaborated with Japanese colonialism during the cultural practices of assimilation and imperialization. It chronicles a historiography of colonial identity formations that delineates the shift from a collective and heterogeneous political horizon to a personal and inner struggle of becoming "Japanese".
Successfully bridging history and literary studies, this bold and imaginative book rethinks the history of Japanese rule in Taiwan by radically expanding its approach to colonial discourses. Showing the ways that Taiwanese identities were produced in the interstices of nationalist China, imperialist Japan, and colonial Taiwan, Ching transcends the national boundaries that all too often enclose our studies of colonial discourses. His deft analysis and movement from the colonial politics of nationalism to postcolonial identity politics in Taiwan change the way we look at both.Details
- Title Becoming "Japanese": Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation
- Author Leo T. Ching
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 263
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-06-30
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780520225534 / 0520225538
- Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 8.94 x 6.02 x 0.72 in (22.71 x 15.29 x 1.83 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects Taiwan - History - 1895-1945, Taiwan - Politics and government - 1895-1945
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00051169
- Dewey Decimal Code 951.249
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