Japanese Taiwan: Colonial Rule and Its Contested Legacy

Book Overview

Colonial agents worked for fifty years to make a Japanese Taiwan, using technology, culture, statistics, trade, and modern ideologies to remake their new territory according to evolving ideas of Japanese empire. Since the end of the Pacific War, this project has been remembered, imagined, nostalgized, erased, commodified, manipulated, idealized and condemned by different sectors of Taiwan's population.

The volume covers a range of topics,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350022578
• ISBN13: 9781350022577
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"