{"product_id":"japanese-taiwan-andrew-d-morris-9781350022577","title":"Japanese Taiwan: Colonial Rule and its Contested Legacy","description":"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. \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe volume covers a range of topics, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eincluding 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew D. Morris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350022578\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350022577\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/26\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.58d","brand":"Andrew D. Morris","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44169824403711,"sku":"9781350022577","price":51.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ae4330b5-6872-4ce0-9e49-100454770371.jpg?v=1689655133","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/japanese-taiwan-andrew-d-morris-9781350022577","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}