Becoming Japanese: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation

by Leo TS Ching (Author)

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  2001

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  In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. This work examines the formation of Taiwanese political and cultural identities under the dominant Japanese colonial discourse of assimilation and imperialization (kominka) from the early 1920s to the end of the Japanese Empire in 1945.