Taiwan in Japan's empire-building an institutional approach to colonial engineering /

• Main Author: Cai, Huiyu.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon, UK : Routledge, 2009.
• Series: Academia Sinica on East Asia.
• Subjects: Social control > History > 20th century. > Taiwan; HISTORY.; Japan > Colonies > History > 20th century. > Taiwan; Taiwan > History > 1895-1945.; Electronic books.
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This book illuminates Japan's colonial administration at work in general, and the role of Taiwan in the context of Japan's colonial empire-making in particular.

Table of Contents:

• Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Maps; Tables; Appendices; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Law, order, and colonial governance; 1 "Rule by law"; 2 The Emperor's servants; 3 The "police as lord"; Part II Colonial engineering; 4 Colonial governmentality; 5 Social engineering; 6 Creating the local; Part III War, mobilization, and legacy; 7 The "Emperor's subjects"; 8 Bringing war back into history; 9 Politics of memory and history; Conclusion; Appendix 1 Governors-General of Taiwan, 1895-1945; Appendix 2 Governors-General of Korea, 1910-45.