SemesterFall Semester, 2020
DepartmentJunior Class of Department of Political Science Senior Class of Department of Political Science
Course NamePolitical History of Taiwan
InstructorWENG VIVIANNE
Credit3.0
Course TypeSelectively
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
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Week Date Topics & Readings Descriptions Working Hours
1 17/09 An introduction to the course organisation and contents Lecture  3
2 24/09 Taiwan, in search of a consensus of her own history Lecture + synthesis writing exercise 3
3 01/10 (Break for Mid-Autumn Festival) National holiday 0
4 08/10 Round I – Formosa and World Trade

Ch. 9 Lord and Vassal, T. Andrade, How Taiwan Became Chinese, NY: CUP, 2008.
Rapporteur team presentation + Lecture 5
5 15/10 Round I – Kingdom of Tungning

C. A. Curwen, Review Koxinga and Chinese Nationalism: History, Myth, and the Hero (R. C. Croizier), 41(3) BSOAS 621-623 (1978).
Rapporteur team presentation + Lecture 5
6 22/10 Round I discussion session Team synthesis discussion & writing 4
7 29/10 Round II – Chinese Qing Rule

R. Ye, Colonisation without Exploitation, 6 JALTA (2013)
Rapporteur team presentation + Lecture 5
8 05/11 Round II – – Ethnic Feud

D. Ownby, The "Ethnic Feud" in Qing Taiwan, 11(1) LIC 75 (1990).
Rapporteur team presentation + Lecture 5
9 12/11 Round II – – Japanese Rule

A. J. Grajdanzev, Formosa (Taiwan) under Japanese Rule, 15(3) Pacific Affairs 311 (1943).
Rapporteur team presentation + Lecture 5
10 19/11 Round II – Colonialisation revisited

M. Wakabayashi, A Perspective on Studies of Taiwanese Political History: Reconsidering the Postwar Japanese Historiography of Japanese Colonial Rule in Taiwan, Liao & Wang (eds) Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945 (2006).
Rapporteur team presentation + Lecture 5
11 26/11 Round II discussion session Team synthesis discussion & writing 4
12 03/12 Round III – Nationalist Chinese Rule

Ch. 14 The March Massacre, G. H. Kerr, Formosa Betrayed, 1965.
Rapporteur team presentation + Lecture 4
13 10/12 Round III – Martial Law

L. Chao & R. H. Myers, How Elections Promoted Democracy in Taiwan under Martial Law, 162(sp) The China Quarterly 387 (2000).
Rapporteur team presentation + Lecture 5
14 17/12 Round III – Democratisation

T.-J. Cheng, Democratising the Quasi-Leninist Regime in Taiwan, 41(4) World Politics 471(1989).
Rapporteur team presentation + Lecture 5
15 24/12 Round III – Taiwanese Nationalism

M. Wakabayashi, Taiwanese Nationalism and the ‘‘Unforgettable Others’’, E. Friedman(ed) China's Rise, Taiwan's Dilemma's and International Peace (2005).
Rapporteur team presentation + Lecture 5
16 31/12 Round III discussion session Team synthesis discussion & writing 4
17 07/01 Research paper discussion session Paper to be uploadded within 1 week. 6
18 14/01 [(History museum visit & observation sharing)]   5


 


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant

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Requirement/Grading

I. Course requirements



Joint the Facebook group « NCCU2020_PHT ». No alternative, it’s a requirement.



Pre-class reading: There is an article or topic designated for each week (see next page for details).  

•    Each student is expected to effectively do the reading before attending the class.

•    Each team is supposed to do at least one reading preview presentation within 30 minutes at the beginning of each lecture session.  The idea of “preview” is to show your understanding & primary reflections regarding the designated reading and other references relating to it.



Discussion and synthesis at the end of each round: During the discussion session at the end of each round, assisted by the instructor, every team should upload to the course Facebook group their collective work of a synthesis based on the designated readings.  This synthesis is “your version” of history, together with your analysis, reflections and critiques.  It needs to be a solidly composed text around 1000 words, uploaded and signed by drafting team members. Plagiarism, including copy-paste without citation note, will be severely sanctioned.  There will also be a mutual monitoring system within each team to make sure that everyone contributes to the synthesis job.  On the other hand, English grammar or spelling problems will NOT be taken into account for evaluation. 



Visit of a history museum by team: Anytime during the semester, join your teammates for a museum tour.  The museum of your choice shall be related to the political history of Taiwan.  Share your observations and comments (one team, one post) on our FB group before 14 January 2020.



II. Evaluation



1. Participation: 10%

Frequency of questions and attendance.



2. Team works: 60%




  • Collective synthesis work.

  • Reading preview presentation.

  • Museum tour sharing post



3. Research paper: 30%

At the end of the semester, each team is required to:




  • Pick up a research topic based on a team deliberation.

  • Discuss with the instructor to make sure that the research topic and method would work during the Round III.

  • Motivate every teammate to effectively contribute to the research by holding meetings.

  • Make sure that the paper is based on a rigorous literature review and well-presented arguments. 

  • Finish the writing with around 3000 words and upload the paper in PDF format before 14 January 2020 to our FB group.

     


Textbook & Reference

Extended references/readings



General Background




  • Copper, John F. Historical Dictionary of Taiwan (Republic of China). 4th ed. Lanham, MD: Roman & Littlefield, 2015.

  • Davidson, James Wheeler. The Island of Formosa, Past and Present: History, People, Resources, and Commercial Prospects. London: Macmillan, 1903.

  • Fell, Dafydd. Government and Politics in Taiwan. New York: Routledge, 2012.

  • Manthorpe, Jonathan. Forbidden Nation: A History of Taiwan. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

  • Roy, Denny. Taiwan: A Political History. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003.

  • Rubinstein, Murray A., ed. Taiwan: A New History. Expanded Edition. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2006.



Round I - Age of Discovery




  • Andrade, Tonio. How Taiwan Became Chinese. NY: CUP. 2008.

  • Clements, Jonathan. Pirate King: Coxinga and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty. Phoenix Mill, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 2004.

  • Coyet, Fredrik. Neglected Formosa: A Translation from the Dutch of Frederic Coyett’s Verwaerloosde Formosa. Edited by Inez de Beauclair. San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center, 1975.

  • Eskildsen, Robert, ed. Foreign Adventurers and the Aborigines of Southern Taiwan, 1867-1874: Western Sources Related to Japan's 1874 Expedition to Taiwan. Taipei : Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, 2005.

  • Mateo, Jose? Eugenio Borao. The Spanish Experience in Taiwan, 1626-1642: The Baroque Ending of a Renaissance Endeavor. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. International Journal of Maritime History 23(1): 374 (2011).

  • Struve, Lynn A. The Southern Ming, 1644-1662. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. 

  • Tsai, Shih-shan Henry. Maritime Taiwan : historical encounters with the East and the West. NY: Sharpe, 2009.



Round II - Ching Rule + Japanese Rule




  • Allee, Mark A. Law and Local Society in Late Imperial China: Northern Taiwan in the Nineteenth Century. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.

  • Ching, Leo T. S. Becoming Japanese: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

  • Ka, Chih-ming. Japanese Colonialism in Taiwan: Land Tenure, Development, and Dependency, 1895-1945. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995.

  • Kerr, George H. Formosa: Licensed Revolution and the Home Rule Movement, 1895-1945. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1974.

  • Ownby, David. Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China: The Formation of a Tradition. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.

  • Shepherd, John Robert. Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier, 1600-1800. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993.

  • Tsurumi, E. Patricia. Japanese Colonial Education in Taiwan, 1895-1945. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977.

  • Tu, Cheng-sheng. Ilha Formosa: The Emergence of Taiwan on the World Scene in the 17th Century. Taipei: National Palace Productions, 2003.

  • Wang, Taisheng. Legal Reform in Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945: The Reception of Western Law. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.

  • Yen, Sophia Su-fei. Taiwan in China's Foreign Relations, 1836-1874. Hamden, Conn., Shoe String Press, 1965.



Round III - Cold War Period




  • Brown, Melissa J. Is Taiwan Chinese? The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

  • Bush, Richard C. At Cross Purposes: U.S.-Taiwan Relations Since 1942. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2004.

  • Chao, Linda, and Ramon H. Myers. The First Chinese Democracy: Political Life in the Republic of China on Taiwan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

  • Chin, Ko-lin. Heijin: Organized Crime, Business, and Politics in Taiwan. Armonke, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2003

  • Gold, Thomas B. State and Society in the Taiwan Miracle. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1986.

  • Kaplan, David E. Fires of the Dragon: Politics, Murder, and the Kuomintang. New York: Atheneum, 1992.

  • Kerr, George H. Formosa Betrayed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.

  • Taylor, Jay. The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.

  • Tien, Hung-mao. The Great Transition: Political and Social Change in the Republic of China. Taipei: SMC, 1989.

  • Tsai, Tehpen. Elegy of Sweet Potatoes: Stories of Taiwan's White Terror. Taipei: Taiwan Publishing Company, 2002.


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