Starting with the debate on Taiwan Residents national consciousness between Chen Yingzhen and Japanese scholar Shozo Fujii, and Chen＇s supporter Masayoshi Matsunaga around 2004, the paper examines the historiography ...Starting with the debate on Taiwan Residents national consciousness between Chen Yingzhen and Japanese scholar Shozo Fujii, and Chen＇s supporter Masayoshi Matsunaga around 2004, the paper examines the historiography of Taiwan Residents literature studies since postwar Japan. It is argued that Shozo Fuji＇s study of Taiwan Residents literature during the Japanese occupation period is different from Yoshinori Kobayashi＇s On Taiwan, which deliberately seeks to erase the sin of colonial rule. However, in applying Western theories mechanically it is indeed easy to end up on the opposite side of historical criticism, for the reason Shozo Fujii did not provide a necessary alert to the crux in Anderson＇s theory. The argumentation among the three parties not only involves how to understand Taiwan Residents history and literature in the complex structure of East Asia, but more importantly about how to make value judgments regarding two hundred years of colonialism.展开更多
This paper aims to explore Talwanese people＇s memories of war based on Hsiao Chin Tui＇s novel The Doll of Fate which describes the later period when Japan colonized Taiwan and the youth of Taiwan serve in the milita...This paper aims to explore Talwanese people＇s memories of war based on Hsiao Chin Tui＇s novel The Doll of Fate which describes the later period when Japan colonized Taiwan and the youth of Taiwan serve in the military voluntarily. The voluntary is not only influenced by kominka movement, but also is the effect of Japan＇s war discourse of protecting Asia from the fight of Western countries. However, no matter in schools or society, discrimination in colony leads youth＇s anger and forms an invisible power of the discourse of anti-war. Youth in Taiwan gradually doubt of the war idea of Japan, including the fear of death. In this paper, I define the situation as ＂the war of heart＂. This paper focuses on the changing of character＇s mind and spirit. This paper also observes the changing process of the identification of race and mother land. The observation will be a basis to think about the historical meaning of war experience of mobilization and memories of Talwanese people during the colonial period by Japan.展开更多
文摘Starting with the debate on Taiwan Residents national consciousness between Chen Yingzhen and Japanese scholar Shozo Fujii, and Chen＇s supporter Masayoshi Matsunaga around 2004, the paper examines the historiography of Taiwan Residents literature studies since postwar Japan. It is argued that Shozo Fuji＇s study of Taiwan Residents literature during the Japanese occupation period is different from Yoshinori Kobayashi＇s On Taiwan, which deliberately seeks to erase the sin of colonial rule. However, in applying Western theories mechanically it is indeed easy to end up on the opposite side of historical criticism, for the reason Shozo Fujii did not provide a necessary alert to the crux in Anderson＇s theory. The argumentation among the three parties not only involves how to understand Taiwan Residents history and literature in the complex structure of East Asia, but more importantly about how to make value judgments regarding two hundred years of colonialism.
文摘This paper aims to explore Talwanese people＇s memories of war based on Hsiao Chin Tui＇s novel The Doll of Fate which describes the later period when Japan colonized Taiwan and the youth of Taiwan serve in the military voluntarily. The voluntary is not only influenced by kominka movement, but also is the effect of Japan＇s war discourse of protecting Asia from the fight of Western countries. However, no matter in schools or society, discrimination in colony leads youth＇s anger and forms an invisible power of the discourse of anti-war. Youth in Taiwan gradually doubt of the war idea of Japan, including the fear of death. In this paper, I define the situation as ＂the war of heart＂. This paper focuses on the changing of character＇s mind and spirit. This paper also observes the changing process of the identification of race and mother land. The observation will be a basis to think about the historical meaning of war experience of mobilization and memories of Talwanese people during the colonial period by Japan.
