Course Outline: each class consists of 3 hours (unless otherwise specified)
Week 1:
Course Overview; Review of Syllabus; Population and Geography
Week 2:
Pre-modern history of Taiwan
Reading: J. Bruce Jacobs, “A History of Pre-Invasion Taiwan” (2016)
Week 3:
Arrival
of
the
Europeans
Reading: Tonio Andrade, How Taiwan Became Chinese—Introduction, Chapters
1-3
Week 4:
Competition among Maritime Powers
Reading: Tonio Andrade, How Taiwan Became Chinese—Chapters 4-7
Week 5:
The “Chinese” Factor
Reading: Tonio Andrade, How Taiwan Became Chinese—Chapters 8-11,
Conclusion
Week 6:
Under the Chinese Rule (and “Perception”)
Reading: Emma Jinhua Teng, Taiwan’s Imagined Geography—Introduction,
Chapters 1-3
Week 7:
Classifying the Taiwanese
Reading: Emma Jinhua Teng, Taiwan’s Imagined Geography—Chapters 4-6
Week 8:
Making Taiwan “Chinese”
Reading: Emma Jinhua Teng, Taiwan’s Imagined Geography—Chapters 7-9,
Conclusion
Week 9:
Arrival of the Japanese
Reading: Liao
Ping-?Hui
and
David
Der-?Wei
Wang,
eds.,
Taiwan
under
Japanese
Colonial
Rule,
1895-?1945—Introduction, Chapters 1-4
Week 10:
Cultural Change under the Japanese Rule
Reading:
Ø? Liao
Ping-?Hui
and
David
Der-?Wei
Wang,
eds.,
Taiwan
under
Japanese
Colonial
Rule,
1895-?1945—Chapters 5-8
Ø? Shi-?chi
Mike
Lan,
“In
Pursuit
of
Equality
and
Liberty:
Taiwan’s
Indigenous
Political
Movement
in
the
1920s”,
book
chapter
in
Jun-?Hyeok
Kwak
and
Koichiro
Matsuda,
eds.,
Patriotism
in
East
Asia
(London:
Routledge,
2015),
pp.151-?171
Week 11:
Art and Literature under the Japanese Rule
Reading: Liao
Ping-?Hui
and
David
Der-?Wei
Wang,
eds.,
Taiwan
under
Japanese
Colonial
Rule,
1895-?1945—Chapters 9-12
Week 12:
Identity
Reading: Leo T.S. Ching, Becoming “Japanese” (Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press, 2001)
Week 13:
Identity-formation in Action
Reading: Evan
Dawley,
Becoming
Taiwanese
(Cambridge,
MA:
Harvard
University
Press,
2019)
Week 14:
Colonial Legacy
Reading:
Ø? Liao
Ping-?Hui
and
David
Der-?Wei
Wang,
eds.,
Taiwan
under
Japanese
Colonial
Rule,
1895-?1945—Chapters 13-15, 17
Ø? Amae, Yoshihisa, “Pro-colonial or Postcolonial?” (2011)
Week 15:
Wartime Taiwan
Reading:
Ø? Liao
Ping-?Hui
and
David
Der-?Wei
Wang,
eds.,
Taiwan
under
Japanese
Colonial
Rule,
1895-?1945—Chapter 16
Ø? Shi-?chi
Mike
Lan,
“Crime“
of
Interpreting:
Taiwanese
Interpreters
as
War
Criminals
of
World
War
II,
in
Kayoko
Takeda
and
Jesús
Baigorri,
eds.,
New
Insights
in
the
History
of
Interpreting
(Benjamins
Translation
Library
122)
(Amsterdam,
the
Netherlands:
John
Benjamins
Publishing
Company,
March
2016),
pp.193-?224
Week 16:
Legacy of the Second World War in Taiwan
Reading:
Ø? Shi-?chi
Mike
Lan, “Trapped
between
Imperial
Ruins:
Internment
and
Repatriation
of
the
Taiwanese
in
Postwar
Asia-?Pacific”,
in
Barak
Kushner
and
Sherzod
Muminov,
eds.,
Overcoming
Empire
in
Post-?Imperial
East
Asia:
Repatriation,
Redress
and
Rebuilding
(London,
UK:
Bloomsbury
Press,
2019),
pp.17-?35
Ø? Shi-?chi
Mike
Lan, “(Re-?)Writing
History
of
the
Second
World
War:
Forgetting
and
Remembering
the
Taiwanese-?native
Japanese
Soldiers
in
Postwar
Taiwan”,
positions:
Asia
Critique,
Vol.21,
No.4,
Fall
2013
(February
2014),
pp.801-?852
Ø? Shi-?chi
Mike
Lan, “Shaping
Perception
of
the
Second
World
War:
A
Study
of
Textbooks
in
Taiwan
in
the
1940s”,
in
Pei-?yin
Lin
and
Weipin
Tsai,
eds.,
Print,
Profit,
and
Perception:
Ideas,
Information
and
Knowledge
in
Chinese
Societies,
1895-?1949
(Leiden,
the
Netherlands:
Brill,
2013),
pp.165-?187
Week 17 and 18:
Presentation of Research Project
Requirements and Grades
This course will consist of lectures, discussion, and students’ presentation; active
participation in class is expected.
Students are expected to finish all required readings before class. Participation will
be taken into consideration in determining students’ term grades.
Each student needs to submit: 2 “Exploratory papers” on chosen topic between
Week 3 and 16
Each student needs to submit: 1 “Research Project” (5000 words minimum) on
Week 18
The term grade consists of the following: Exploratory paper 25% X 2 = 50%, and
Research Project (including Presentation) 50%.
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Recommended Readings:
l? Tonio Andrade, How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han
Colonization in the Seventeenth Century (New York: Columbia University
Press, 2009)
l? Leo T.S. Ching, Becoming “Japanese” (Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press, 2001)
l? Evan Dawley, Becoming Taiwanese (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 2019)
l? Liao Ping-Hui and David Der-Wei Wang, eds., Taiwan under Japanese
Colonial Rule, 1895-1945 (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2005)
l? Emma Jinhua Teng, Taiwan’s Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel
Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
2004)
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