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: Mid-term review

Week 10: Arrival of the Japanese

Reading: Evan Dawley, Becoming Taiwanese (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019)—Introduction, Chapters 1-2

Week 11: Social Change under the Japanese Rule

Reading: Evan Dawley, Becoming Taiwanese—Chapters 3-5

Week 12:

Cultural Change under the Japanese Rule

Reading: Liao Ping-­?Hui and David Der-­?Wei Wang, eds., Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-­?1945—Chapters 5-8

Week 13:

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 14:

Colonial Legacy

Reading: Liao Ping-­?Hui and David Der-­?Wei Wang, eds., Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-­?1945—Chapters 13-15, 17

Amae, Yoshihisa, “Pro-colonial or Postcolonial?” (2011)

Week 15:

Postwar Changes under the ROC Rule

Reading: Evan Dawley, Becoming Taiwanese—Chapters 6-7, Conclusion

Week 16-17: Presentation

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” due on Week 8 and 15

Each student needs to submit: 1 “Research Project” (5000 words minimum) on Week 18

The term grade consists of the following:

Class participation and exploratory papers  = 50%

Research Project (including Presentation)  = 50%