Becoming "Japanese" : colonial Taiwan and the politics of identity formation / [electronic resource]
Ching, Leo T. S.,1962-
Berkeley, [Calif.] ; London : University of California Press,
2001.
In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. For the next 50 years, Japanese rule devastated and transformed the entire socioeconomic and political fabric of Taiwanese society. This book examines the formation of Taiwanese political and cultural identities under the dominant Japanese colonial discourse of assimilation and imperialization from the early 1920s to the end of the Japanese Empire in 1945.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-244) and index.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. For the next 50 years, Japanese rule devastated and transformed the entire socioeconomic and political fabric of Taiwanese society. This book examines the formation of Taiwanese political and cultural identities under the dominant Japanese colonial discourse of assimilation and imperialization from the early 1920s to the end of the Japanese Empire in 1945.
Description based on print version record.
Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East
History & Archaeology
East Asia