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• Introduction, Ts'ui-jung Liu, Andrea Janku and David Pietz
• Part I: Landscape Organization
• 1. Borders and Mosaics, East and West: Landscape Organization in Environmental History, J. Donald Hughes
• Part II: Managing the Rivers
• 2. Writing the Twentieth-Century History of Water on the North China Plain, David Pietz
• 3. Land Use Change in a Mountainous Area During the Last 300 Years from the Perspective of Spatial Evolution of Settlements: The Case of the Zhangjiu River Basin in Yunnan Province, China, Renlong Huo
• 4. Taming the Black Snake: Flooding Disasters and River Regulation of the Zengwen River in Colonial Taiwan, Ya-wen Ku
• Part III: Land Use and Food Production
• 5. Transformation Through Inundation: Riziculturing Muslim Identity in Qing Dynasty Khotan, David A. Bello
• 6. The Role of Plant Factory on Food Production and Technology in Japan, Kaihei Koshio
• Part IV: Development of Eco-cities
• 7. Eco-city Development in Japan, Kentarou Inoue
• 8. Ecological Constructions in Coastal Southeast China, Ts'ui-jung Liu
• 9. Building the Sustainable City of Yilan: The Development of Environmental Governance Learning Capacity, Huang-Jyuhn Wang and He-Liang Huang
• Part V: Folk Belief and Environment
• 10. Natural Worship and the Environment in Song China, Jin Liu and Lei Kang
• 11. The Mountain Spirits and Lake Monsters of Xinjiang Province During the Qing Dynasty, Chuanfei Liu.
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Covering the ancient period through to the 21st century, this book examines how landscapes have changed across East Asia over time. Featuring examples of a variety of landscapes, from the riverine and agricultural to the urban and aesthetic, this books thus presents a comprehensive review of East Asian environmental history. The eleven chapters, written by an international team of leading scholars, provide analysis of a wide range of spatial, temporal, and thematic considerations. Seeking to use the concept of landscape to evaluate the opportunities and constraints faced by East Asian communities, it also explores the relationship between landscape transformation and human agency. In so doing, it aims to survey the current methodology and scholarship in the field and demonstrate a new approach which encompasses socio-economic and cultural history, as well as GIS-based geographical studies. Providing an in-depth examination of landscape change across the sub-regions of China and Japan, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Asian History and Environmental Studies.
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• Introduction, Ts'ui-jung Liu, Andrea Janku and David Pietz
• Part I: Landscape Organization
• 1. Borders and Mosaics, East and West: Landscape Organization in Environmental History, J. Donald Hughes
• Part II: Managing the Rivers
• 2. Writing the Twentieth-Century History of Water on the North China Plain, David Pietz
• 3. Land Use Change in a Mountainous Area During the Last 300 Years from the Perspective of Spatial Evolution of Settlements: The Case of the Zhangjiu River Basin in Yunnan Province, China, Renlong Huo
• 4. Taming the Black Snake: Flooding Disasters and River Regulation of the Zengwen River in Colonial Taiwan, Ya-wen Ku
• Part III: Land Use and Food Production
• 5. Transformation Through Inundation: Riziculturing Muslim Identity in Qing Dynasty Khotan, David A. Bello
• 6. The Role of Plant Factory on Food Production and Technology in Japan, Kaihei Koshio
• Part IV: Development of Eco-cities
• 7. Eco-city Development in Japan, Kentarou Inoue
• 8. Ecological Constructions in Coastal Southeast China, Ts'ui-jung Liu
• 9. Building the Sustainable City of Yilan: The Development of Environmental Governance Learning Capacity, Huang-Jyuhn Wang and He-Liang Huang
• Part V: Folk Belief and Environment
• 10. Natural Worship and the Environment in Song China, Jin Liu and Lei Kang
• 11. The Mountain Spirits and Lake Monsters of Xinjiang Province During the Qing Dynasty, Chuanfei Liu.
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Covering the ancient period through to the 21st century, this book examines how landscapes have changed across East Asia over time. Featuring examples of a variety of landscapes, from the riverine and agricultural to the urban and aesthetic, this books thus presents a comprehensive review of East Asian environmental history. The eleven chapters, written by an international team of leading scholars, provide analysis of a wide range of spatial, temporal, and thematic considerations. Seeking to use the concept of landscape to evaluate the opportunities and constraints faced by East Asian communities, it also explores the relationship between landscape transformation and human agency. In so doing, it aims to survey the current methodology and scholarship in the field and demonstrate a new approach which encompasses socio-economic and cultural history, as well as GIS-based geographical studies. Providing an in-depth examination of landscape change across the sub-regions of China and Japan, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Asian History and Environmental Studies.
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• Introduction, Ts'ui-jung Liu Part I: Environmental Thought and Policy
• 1. Scientific Curiosity in China and Europe: Natural History in the late Ming and the Eighteenth Century, Mark Elvin
• 2. Environmental Ethics and Aesthetics: The Laozi Revisited Yim-tze Kwong
• 3. Vision and Significance in Environmental Policy History, Susumu Kitagawa Part II: Utilizations of Land Resources
• 4. The Effect of Environment on the War between the Song and the Jin States, Jin Liu and Lei Kang
• 5. The Retreat of the Horse: The Manchus, Land Reclamation and Local Ecology in the Jianghan Plain (ca. 1700s-1850s), Yan Gao
• 6. Problems Concerning the Environmental History of the Chinese Loess Plateau, Kohei Matsunaga
• 7. The Zhaozhou Bazi Society in Yunnan: Historical Process in the Bazi Basin Environmental System during the Ming Period (1368-1643), Jianxiong Ma
• 8. Lashihai: Changing Environmental Protection of an Alpine Lake and Wetland, Shu-min Huang
• 9. Forest Landscape Change at the Shihmen Reservoir Catchment (2002-2007), Chih-Da Wu, Shih-Chun Candice Lung, Yung-Chung Chuang, and Jihn-Fa Jan Part III: Ground Gained for Agriculture
• 10. Limitations and Adaptation: Environment and Technology in Jifu Region's Rice Cultivation during the Ming and Qing Periods (1368-1911), Xin-hao Du and Bo Ren
• 11. Historical Knowledge and the Response to Desertification: A Study of Agricultural Water Supply Technology in Eighteenth-Century Northwestern China, Shinobu Iguro
• 12. The Aesthetics and Politics of Chinese Horticulture in Late Qing Borderlands, Peter Lavelle
• 13. Maize Cultivation and Its Effect on Rocky Desertification: A Spatial Study of Guizhou Province (1736-1949), Zhaoqing Han Part IV: Ground Lost: Disaster and Disease
• 14. Infant Mortality and Beriberi in Osaka City between the World Wars: Impact of the Mother's Diet on Infant Health, Emiko Higami and Kenichi Tomobe
• 15. Faith Healing and Vaccination against Smallpox in Nineteenth-Century Japan, Hiroshi Kawaguchi
• 16. Living Style Diseases: Parasite Infections and Kaoping Region's Rural Environment, Michael Shiyung Li
• 17. Ecodemics: Facing and Mediating the Risks from the Wild, Mika Mervio
• 18. Beyond Uncertainty: Industrial Hazards and Class Actions in Taiwan and Japan, Paul Jobin.
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As environmental history has developed as growing sub-discipline within the study of history, great emphasis has been placed on the importance of adopting an interdisciplinary approach. Indeed, as Environmental History in East Asia shows, by drawing on research and methodologies from the fields of science, technology, geography, geology and ecology, we are able to develop a much richer understanding of a region's history. This book provides a comprehensive examination of environmental history in East Asia, ranging temporally from the Ming dynasty to the 21st Century and spatially across China, Japan and Taiwan. Split into four parts, the chapters cover a wide range of fascinating topics, comparing environmental thought and policy in the East and West, the transformation of the landscape, land resource utilization and impact of agriculture and disasters and diseases across the region. A diverse selection of case studies are used to illustrate the chapters, including the role of Daoism, Qing pasturelands and 21st century swine flu. Truly interdisciplinary in approach, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Asian environmentalism, environmental history, Asian anthropology, Asian development studies and Asian history more generally.
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• Introduction, Peng Hsiao-yen and Whitney Crothers Dilley Part I. Adaptation as translation, betrayal, or consumption
• 1. Montage of attractions: juxtaposing Lust/Caution, Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh
• 2. Two versions of SeaeGBPJie: fiction and film - views from a common reader, Cecile Chu-chin Sun
• 3. Sado-masochism, steamy sex, and Shanghai glitter: what's love got to do with it? - a 'philologist' looks at Lust/Caution and the literary texts that inspired it, Jon Eugene von Kowallis
• 4. Cannibal, class, betrayal: Eileen Chang and Ang Lee, Darrell William Davis Part II: Eros, subjectivity, and collective memory
• 5. Eros impossible and eros of the impossible in Lust/Caution: the Shanghai lady/baby in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Hsiang-Yin Sasha Chen
• 6. Self as performance, lust as betrayal in the theatre of war, Susan Daruvala
• 7. The "real" Wang Jiazhi: taboo, transgression, and truth in Lust/Caution, Whitney Crothers Dilley Part III: Identity politics and global cultural economy
• 8. Becoming noir, Kien Ket Lim
• 9. Woman as metaphor: how Lust/Caution re/deconstructs history, Peng Hsiao-yen
• 10. The transnational affect: cold anger, hot tears, and Lust/Caution, Chang Hsiao-hung.
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In 2007, Ang Lee made an espionage thriller based on the short story "Lust, Caution" by Eileen Chang, China's most famous female author of the twentieth century. The release of the film became a trigger for heated debates on issues of national identity and political loyalty, and brought unexpectedly harsh criticism from China, where Ang Lee was labelled a traitor in scathing internet critiques, whilst the film's leading actress Tang Wei was banned from appearing on screen for two years. This book analyses Ang Lee's art of film adaptation through the lens of modern literary and film theory, as well as featuring detailed readings and analyses of different dialogues and scenes, directorial and authorial decisions and intentions, while at the same time confronting the intense political debates resulting from the film's subject matter. The theories of Freud, Lacan, Deleuze, Bataille and others are used to identify and clarify issues raised by the film related to gender, sexuality, eroticism, power, manipulation, and betrayal; the themes of lust and caution are dealt with in conjunction with the controversial issues of contemporary political consciousness concerning patriotism, and the Sino-Japanese War complicated by divided historical experiences and cross-Taiwan Strait relationships. The contributors to this volume cover translation and adaptation, loyalty and betrayal, collaboration and manipulation, playing roles and performativity, whilst at the same time intertwining these with issues of national identity, political loyalty, collective memory, and gender. As such, the book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese and Asian cinema and literature, as well as those interested in modern Chinese history and cultural studies.
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• 1. Economic Values and Social Space in Historical Lower Yangzi Delta Economy: An Introductory Essay Billy K. L. So Part I: Money, Productivity, and Price: A Matter of Economic Values
• 2. Cycles of Silver in Chinese Monetary History Richard von Glahn
• 3. Cotton Textile Production in Jiangnan during the Ming-Qing Era and the Matter of Market-driven Growth Harriet Zurndorfer
• 4. Agricultural Productivity in Early Modern Jiangnan Guanglin Liu
• 5. Copper, Silver, and Tea: The Question of Eighteenth-Century Inflation in the Lower Yangzi Delta Sui-wai Cheung
• 6. An Early Modern Economy in China: A Study of the GDP of Huating-Lou Area, 1823-29 Bozhong Li Part II: Urbanization, Institutions, and Networks: A Matter of Social Space
• 7. On the Emergence and Intensification of the Pattern of Rural-Urban Continuum in Late Imperial Jiangnan Society Shiba Yoshinobu
• 8. Institutions in Market Economies of Premodern Maritime China Billy K. L. So
• 9. The Rise of Huizhou Merchants: Kinship and Commerce in Ming China Joseph P. McDermott
• 10. Conditions and Risks of Water Transport in the Late Ming Songjiang Region as Seen in the Cases Collected in MaoYilu's Yunjian yanlue Ka-chai Tam
• 11. Brokers and 'Guild' Organizations (huiguan) in China's Maritime Trade with Japan in High Qing Angela Schottenhammer.
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Historically, the Lower Yangzi Delta (or Jiangnan), has played a key role in China's economic development. Indeed, as the prime example of a traditional Chinese market economy, the region serves as the core case study when making comparisons between the Chinese and Western economies in the early modern period. This book explores aspects of this vibrant market economy in late imperial China, and by presenting a reconstructed narrative of economic development in the early modern Jiangnan, provides new perspectives on established theories of Chinese economic development. Further, by examining economic values alongside social structures, this book produces a historically comprehensive account of the contemporary Chinese economy which engenders a deeper and broader understanding of China's current economic success. With a broad range of empirical case studies which incorporate a range of social science and cultural theories, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese history, as well as Chinese economics and business.
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• Introduction Part I: Reform and Revolution
• 1. Kang Yuwei and the Reform Movement 0f 1898
• 2. Zhang Binglin and the Revolution of 1911 Part II: Philosophy and History
• 3. Kang's Philosophical Hermeneutics for Political Reform
• 4. Zhang's Defense of History Part III: Paths to Modernity
• 5. Kang's Quest for Modern Material Civilization
• 6. Zhang's Critique of Western Modernity Conclusion.
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Young-tsu Wong throws new light on Kang Youwei and Zhang Binglin, both through research on the sources, nature and import of their ideas and through juxtaposing them. The result is a provocative and stimulating analysis of late Qing-early Republican thought. Never before these two rival thinkers have been studied in any western language, and Wong sees these two men, though distinctly different in personality and thought, as the genuine pioneers of modern Chinese thought. The author highlights the mix of traditional Chinese thought, especially Confucianism and western ideas as well as the personal experiences of the two key thinkers in Modern Chinese History, enabling him to reassess the transition of China's cultural tradition and its modern fate in a world-wide perspective. This work provides a stimulating and provocative reassessment of two major thinkers in modern Chinese history. As such, it will be welcomed by scholars in the field of modern Chinese history and intellectual thought.
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• Introduction: Dandyism, the Quintessence of Transcultural Modernity
• 1. A Dandy, Traveler, and Woman Watcher: Liu Na'ou from Taiwan
• 2. A Traveling Subgenre: The Palm-of-the-Hand Story
• 3. The Flaneur and the Flaneuse: Yokomitsu Riichi's Shanghai
• 4. A Traveling Text: Souvenirs entomologiques
• 5. A Traveling Disease: The "Malady of the Heart" and the Modern Boy Conclusion: To Connect.
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This book views the Neo-Sensation mode of writing as a traveling genre, or style, that originated in France, moved on to Japan, and then to China. The author contends that modernity is possible only on "the transcultural site"-transcultural in the sense of breaking the divide between past and present, elite and popular, national and regional, male and female, literary and non-literary, inside and outside. To illustrate the concept of transcultural modernity, three icons are highlighted on the transcultural site: the dandy, the flaneur, and the translator. Mere flaneurs and flaneurses simply float with the tide of heterogeneous information on the transcultural site, whereas the dandy/flaneur and the cultural translator, propellers of modernity, manage to bring about transformative creation. Their performance marks the essence of transcultural modernity: the self-consciousness of working on the threshold, always testing the limits of boundaries and tempted to go beyond them. To develop the concept of dandyism-the quintessence of transcultural modernity-the Neo-Sensation gender triad formed by the dandy, the modern girl, and the modern boy is laid out. Writers discussed include Liu Na'ou, a Shanghai dandy par excellence from Taiwan, Paul Morand, who looked upon Coco Chanel the female dandy as his perfect other self, and Yokomitsu Riichi, who developed the theory of Neo-Sensation from Kant's the-thing-in-itself.
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• Introduction
• Chapter 1
• The Development of the Judicial Underworld: A Comparative Perspective Background
• Chapter 2
• The Judicial Continuum
• Chapter 3
• Oaths and Chicken-beheading Rituals
• Chapter 4
• Indictment Rituals
• Chapter 5
• Trials of the Insane and Dressing as a Criminal
• Chapter 6
• Judicial Rituals in Asian Colonial and Immigrant History
• Chapter 7
• Judicial Rituals in Modern Taiwan
• Chapter 8
• Case Study: The Dizang Abbey Conclusion Bibliography.
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This book considers the ways in which religious beliefs and practices have contributed to the formation of Chinese legal culture. It does so by describing two forms of overlap between religion and the law: the ideology of justice and the performance of judicial rituals. One of the most important conceptual underpinnings of the Chinese ideology of justice is the belief in the inevitability of retribution. Similar values permeate Chinese religious traditions, all of which contend that justice will prevail despite corruption and incompetence among judicial officials in this world and even the underworld, with all wrongdoers eventually suffering some form of punishment.The second form of overlap between religion and the law may be found in the realm of practice, and involves instances when men and women perform judicial rituals like oaths, chicken-be headings, and underworld indictments in order to enhance the legitimacy of their positions, deal with cases of perceived injustice, and resolve disputes. These rites coexist with other forms of legal practice, including private mediation and the courts, comprising a wide-ranging spectrum of practices. "Divine Justice" will be of enormous interest to scholars of the Chinese legal system and the development of Chinese culture and society more generally.
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• Introduction
• Chapter 1
• The Development of the Judicial Underworld: A Comparative Perspective Background
• Chapter 2
• The Judicial Continuum
• Chapter 3
• Oaths and Chicken-beheading Rituals
• Chapter 4
• Indictment Rituals
• Chapter 5
• Trials of the Insane and Dressing as a Criminal
• Chapter 6
• Judicial Rituals in Asian Colonial and Immigrant History
• Chapter 7
• Judicial Rituals in Modern Taiwan
• Chapter 8
• Case Study: The Dizang Abbey Conclusion Bibliography.
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This book considers the ways in which religious beliefs and practices have contributed to the formation of Chinese legal culture. It does so by describing two forms of overlap between religion and the law: the ideology of justice and the performance of judicial rituals. One of the most important conceptual underpinnings of the Chinese ideology of justice is the belief in the inevitability of retribution. Similar values permeate Chinese religious traditions, all of which contend that justice will prevail despite corruption and incompetence among judicial officials in this world and even the underworld, with all wrongdoers eventually suffering some form of punishment.The second form of overlap between religion and the law may be found in the realm of practice, and involves instances when men and women perform judicial rituals like oaths, chicken-be headings, and underworld indictments in order to enhance the legitimacy of their positions, deal with cases of perceived injustice, and resolve disputes. These rites coexist with other forms of legal practice, including private mediation and the courts, comprising a wide-ranging spectrum of practices. "Divine Justice" will be of enormous interest to scholars of the Chinese legal system and the development of Chinese culture and society more generally.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction I Qian Qianyi's Theory Of Shishi And Historical Contexts Chapter One Qian Qianyi's Theory Of Shishi And Poetics Of Ming Loyalism Chapter Two Qian Qianyi's Reception In Qing Times II "Renouncing The Pen For The Sword": Three Readings Of Qian Qianyi's Shishi Chapter Three The Prophesying Poet-Historian Chapter Four The Poet As Mentor And Strategist Chapter Five Loyalty And Love At Parting Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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This book is the first English language study of Qian Qianyi (1582-1664) - a poet and literary critic during the Ming-Qing dynastic transition. Although Qian's works constitute some of the greatest achievements in pre-modern Chinese lyric poetry, they have been largely understudied and are poorly understood. Qian was reputed for his own aesthetic that changed the character of late Ming and early Qing poetry. His name, however, was branded with infamy for his disloyalty to the Ming dynasty when it dissolved.Consequently, his works were censored by the Qing court and have been forgotten by most critics until recently. Lawrence C.H Yim focuses on Qian's poetic theory and practice, providing a critical study of Qian's theory of poetic-history (shishi) and a group of poems from the Toubi ji. He also examines the role played by history in early Qing verse, rethinking the nature of loyalism and historical memory in seventeenth-century China. Poetry of the Ming-Qing transition is distinguished by its manifest historical consciousness and the effort and give meaning to current historical events, an effort characterized by the pathos of introspection and mourning for the past. This pathos translates into what can be called a poetics of Ming loyalism, exemplified and championed by, intriguingly, the later works of Qian Qianyi himself.
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• INTRODUCTIONTAIWAN AS A REGIONAL STUDYArchival Studies on the Government-General of TaiwanIssues of ColonialityTHE "CULTURAL TURN"Decentering Japanese HistoryWhat a Foucauldian Approach Can Offer?TOWARD INSTITUTIONAL HISTORYThe Discourse on Colonial SocietyJapan's "Colonial Engineering"NOTE ON ROMANIZATIONPART I: LAW, ORDER, AND COLONIAL GOVERNANCERULE BY LAWTHE LEGAL TRADITION OF MODERN JAPANImperial Japan's Colonial Legal SystemThe "Reception of Western Laws"Delegation of Power in GaichiTHE STATUTE LAW IN COLONIAL TAIWAN"Sameness in Differentiation""Rule by Law"Three Sources: Laws, Ordinances, and RegulationsTHE EMPEROR'S CIVIL SERVANTSTHE ESTABLISHMENT OF A MODERN BUREAUCRACY"Rule by Bureaucrats"The Appointment SystemThe Government-General of TaiwanTHE EXAMINATION SYSTEMPrewar Japan's BureaucracyThe Higher Civil Service Examination in TaiwanThe General Civil Service Examination in TaiwanThe General Examination as a Closed SystemTHE EXTRA-BUREAUCRACYA Special Case of the Bureaucracy: The Temporary Staff Taiwan Local-Treatment EmployeesPublic Officials and Honorary PostsTHE POLICE AS LORDJAPAN'S POLICE SYSTEM RECONSIDEREDColonial Myth and Governmental RationalityThe All-Powerful PoliceTHE COLONIAL POLICEThe "Shift" Model of the Police System"Police Politics"THE EXAMINATION SYSTEM AND THE POLICEThe Special Appointment SystemThe Prefecture-Branch SystemTHE CREATION OF COLONIAL SPATIALITYThe Shaping of Colonial Public SphereThe Issue of Colonial CollaborationPART II: COLONIAL ENGINEERINGCOLONIAL GOVERNMENTALITYColonial Governmentality as a Discourse"Principles of Biology"Plague Control and Disease PreventionCollective ResponsibilityHoko Negligence FinesThe Able-Bodied Corps "Prohibiting Opium-Smoking by Taxing it Heavily"SOCIAL ENGINEERINGFrom Late Qing to Japanese Rule: Paradigmatic DebatesMonetary ControlThe Land Survey, 1898-1903Campaigns against Queues and Foot-BindingSpreading Japanese Language"Conforming Customs" as "Assimilation"Opium, Politics, and the Issue of Colonial "Cooperation"The Colonial Dual StructureConcluding RemarksCREATING THE LOCALThe "Local" as a Colonial SpaceThe "Doubility of Self-Government"Modernization as Colonial EngineeringThe 1935 Local ReformRural Revitalization in the 1930sPART II: WAR, MOBILIZATION, AND LEGACYTHE EMPEROR'S "LITTLE BABIES"War, the "Sphere, " and TaiwanSocial Totalization"An Aircraft-Carrier That Would Never Sink"Labor DraftsDoka as an Empire-Making DiscourseBRINGING WAR BACK INTO THE HISTORYICHIGENKA, 1942Taiwan in Japan's "Spheres"The Status of Korea"ADMINISTRATIVE SPEED-UP, " 1943"IMPROVED TREATMENT, " 1944Race, Culture, and "Politics of Ambivalence""Politics of Similarity"POLITICS OF MEMORY AND HISTORYTHE COMPENSATION MOVEMENTHistorical BackgroundInvoking HistoryShusen as a Battling NarrativeMEMORIES AND NARRATIONSNarratives of Taiwan Identity"The Politics of Ambivalence"CONCLUSIONSocial GraftingHoko versus Baojia: The 1930sBringing War Back into the HistoryWar, Colonial Rule, and the Japanese LegacyAPPENDIXES.
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This book explores the institutions through which Taiwan was governed under Japanese colonial rule, illuminating how the administration was engineered and how Taiwan was placed in Japan's larger empire building. The author argues that rather than envisaging the ruling of the society and then going on to frame policies accordingly Japanese rule in Taiwan was more ad hoc: utilizing and integrating 'native' social forces to ensure cooperation. Part I examines how the Japanese administration was shaped in the specific context of colonial Taiwan, focusing on the legal tradition, the civil service examination and the police system. Part II elaborates on the process of 'colonial engineering, ' with special attention paid to 'colonial governmentality', 'social engineering' and colonial spatiality. In Part III Hui-yu Caroline Ts'ai provides a more in-depth analysis of wartime integration policies and the mobilization of labor before making an evaluation of Japan's colonial legacy. Taiwan in Japan's Empire-Building will appeal to researchers, scholars and students interested in Japanese Imperial History as well as those studying the history of Taiwan.
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