Japanese Taiwan: Colonial Rule and its Contested Legacy

274 Pages·2015·3.362 MB·English

by  Morris, Andrew(Editor)

Japanese Taiwan
SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
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Japanese Taiwan

Colonial Rule and its Contested Legacy
Edited by Andrew D. Morris
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
List of Tables ix
Notes on Contributors x
Acknowledgments xiii
Part One Making Japanese Taiwan
1 Introduction: Living as Left Behind in Postcolonial Taiwan
Andrew D. Morris 3
2 Colonial Itineraries: Japanese Photography in Taiwan
Joseph R. Allen 25
3 Tangled up in Red: Textiles, Trading Posts, and the
Emergence of Indigenous Modernity in Japanese Taiwan
Paul D. Barclay 49
4 Making Natives: Japan and the Creation of Indigenous Formosa
Scott Simon 75
5 Ethnicity, Mortality, and the Shinchiku (Xinzhu)
Advantage in Colonial Taiwan
John. R. Shepherd 93
Part Two Remembering Japanese Taiwan
6 Closing a Colony: Th e Meanings of Japanese
Deportation from Taiwan aft er World War II
Evan N. Dawley 115
7 Ethnic Diversity, Two-Layered Colonization, and
Complex Modern Taiwanese Attitudes toward Japan
Chih Huei Huang 133
8 Oh Sadaharu/Wang Zhenzhi and the Possibility of
Chineseness in 1960s Taiwan
Andrew D. Morris 155
9 Haunted Island: Refl ections on the Japanese
Colonial Era in Taiwanese Cinema
Corrado Neri 171
vi Contents
10 Reliving the Past: Th e Narrative Th emes of Repetition
and Continuity in Japan–Taiwan News Coverage
Jens Sejrup 185
11 Drinking Modernity: Sexuality and the Sanitation
of Space in Taiwan’s Coff ee Shops
Marc L. Moskowitz 201
Glossary 213
Bibliography 221
Index 249
List of Illustrations
Figure 1.1 Wedding picture: Huang Cong and Huang Shu
(Nakahara Masao), Taichū (Taizhong), 1937. 6
Figure 1.2 Taiwanese policeman Huang Shu (Nakahara Masao) and fellow
offi cer, participating in fl ood rescue operation, Taikō (Dajia),
around 1940. 10
Figure 1.3 Huang Ba (Nakahara Torao), son of Offi cer Huang/Nakahara. 12
Figure 1.4 Zhanghua City Butokuden (Zhanghua shi wudedian). 21
Figure 2.1 Meiji emperor and his heir apparent (the future Taishō
emperor), unlabeled opening photograph. 29
Figure 2.2 Prince Kitashirakawa, military commander of the 1895
expedition, part of the portrait gallery. 30
Figure 2.3 Prince Kitashirakawa encamped on arrival to Taiwan,
May 29, 1895. 31
Figure 2.4 Airplane and pilots for the Musha (Wushe) expedition of 1930. 32
Figure 2.5 Left most two photos of montage of Japanese violence against
Giran (Yilan) Aboriginal people, prisoners, and beheading. 34
Figure 2.6 Taihoku (Taipei) street scenes ca. 1895. 35
Figure 2.7 Before and aft er photographs of downtown Taihoku
commercial district street renovations. 36
Figure 2.8 Montage of Taihoku city gates. 38
Figure 2.9 Montage of new colonial buildings (weather observatory,
hospital, pharmaceutical factory, post offi ce). 40
Figure 2.10 Taishō emperor and empress, opening page. 42
Figure 2.11 “Fuji.” Lead photograph in “Snapshots of the Capital” section,
Kamera de mita Taiwan (Lure of Taiwan), Vol. 3 (1937). 43
Figure 3.1 An Atayal couple with garments that display the use of imported
dyed threads, buttons, and shells. 56
Figure 3.2 A diorama from the 1913 Osaka Colonial Exhibition. 57
viii List of Illustrations
Figure 3.3 Harrison Forman, “Taiwan woman weaving” (1938). 73
Figure 4.1 General distribution map of Taiwan’s Indigenous population. 77
Figure 8.1 Oh Sadaharu puts on hitting demonstration at Taipei Municipal
Stadium, December 7, 1965. 163