{"product_id":"9781350022577","title":"Japanese Taiwan Colonial Rule and its Contested Legacy","description":"\u003ch3\u003eSOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eJapanese Taiwan\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eColonial Rule and its Contested Legacy\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAndrew D. Morris | Christopher Gerteis\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory \/ Asia \/ Japan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eColonial 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume covers a range of topics, including colonial-era photography, exploration, postwar deportation, sport, film, media, economic planning, contemporary Japanese influences on Taiwanese popular culture, and recent nostalgia for and misunderstandings about the colonial era. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJapanese Taiwan\u003c\/i\u003e provides an interdisciplinary perspective on these related processes of colonization and decolonization, explaining how the memories, scars and traumas of the colonial era have been utilized during the postwar period. It provides a unique critique of the 'Japaneseness' of the erstwhile Chinese Taiwan, thus bringing new scholarship to bear on problems in contemporary East Asian politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAndrew D. Morris\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University, USA.  He is author of \u003ci\u003eColonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan \u003c\/i\u003e(2010) and \u003ci\u003eMarrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China\u003c\/i\u003e (2004).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e26 January 2017\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350022577\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e272\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e13.76\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51332357259404,"sku":"9781350022577","price":47.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_ababdfb1-2ef9-40c6-bffc-070497b37e9a.jpg?v=1783603028","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781350022577","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}