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INTRODUCTION TAIWAN AS A REGIONAL STUDY Archival Studies on the Government-General of Taiwan Issues of Coloniality THE ¿CULTURAL TURN¿ Decentering Japanese History What a Foucauldian Approach Can Offer? TOWARD INSTITUTIONAL HISTORY The Discourse on Colonial Society Japan¿s ¿Colonial Engineering¿ NOTE ON ROMANIZATION PART I: LAW, ORDER, AND COLONIAL GOVERNANCE 1 RULE BY LAW THE LEGAL TRADITION OF MODERN JAPAN Imperial Japan¿s Colonial Legal System The ¿Reception of Western Laws¿ Delegation of Power in Gaichi THE STATUTE LAW IN COLONIAL TAIWAN ¿Sameness in Differentiation¿ ¿Rule by Law¿ Three Sources: Laws, Ordinances, and Regulations 2 THE EMPEROR¿S CIVIL SERVANTS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A MODERN BUREAUCRACY ¿Rule by Bureaucrats¿ The Appointment System The Government-General of Taiwan THE EXAMINATION SYSTEM Prewar Japan¿s Bureaucracy The Higher Civil Service Examination in Taiwan The General Civil Service Examination in Taiwan The General Examination as a Closed System THE EXTRA-BUREAUCRACY A Special Case of the Bureaucracy: The Temporary Staff Taiwan Local-Treatment Employees Public Officials and Honorary Posts 3 THE POLICE AS LORD JAPAN¿S POLICE SYSTEM RECONSIDERED Colonial Myth and Governmental Rationality The All-Powerful Police THE COLONIAL POLICE The ¿Shift¿ Model of the Police System ¿Police Politics¿ THE EXAMINATION SYSTEM AND THE POLICE The Special Appointment System The Prefecture-Branch System THE CREATION OF COLONIAL SPATIALITY The Shaping of Colonial Public Sphere The Issue of Colonial Collaboration PART II: COLONIAL ENGINEERING 4 COLONIAL GOVERNMENTALITY Colonial Governmentality as a Discourse ¿Principles of Biology¿ Plague Control and Disease Prevention Collective Responsibility Hoko Negligence Fines The Able-Bodied Corps ¿Prohibiting Opium-Smoking by Taxing it Heavily¿ 5 SOCIAL ENGINEERING From Late Qing to Japanese Rule: Paradigmatic Debates Monetary Control The Land Survey, 1898-1903 Campaigns against Queues and Foot-Binding Spreading Japanese Language ¿Conforming Customs¿ as ¿Assimilation¿ Opium, Politics, and the Issue of Colonial ¿Cooperation¿ The Colonial Dual Structure Concluding Remarks 6 CREATING THE LOCAL The ¿Local¿ as a Colonial Space The ¿Doubility of Self-Government¿ Modernization as Colonial Engineering The 1935 Local Reform Rural Revitalization in the 1930s PART II: WAR, MOBILIZATION, AND LEGACY 7 THE EMPEROR¿S ¿LITTLE BABIES¿ War, the ¿Sphere,¿ and Taiwan Social Totalization ¿An Aircraft-Carrier That Would Never Sink¿ Labor Drafts Doka as an Empire-Making Discourse 8 BRINGING WAR BACK INTO THE HISTORY ICHIGENKA, 1942 Taiwan in Japan¿s ¿Spheres¿ The Status of Korea ¿ADMINISTRATIVE SPEED-UP,¿ 1943 ¿IMPROVED TREATMENT,¿ 1944 Race, Culture, and ¿Politics of Ambivalence¿ ¿Politics of Similarity¿ 9 POLITICS OF MEMORY AND HISTORY THE COMPENSATION MOVEMENT Historical Background Invoking History Shusen as a Battling Narrative MEMORIES AND NARRATIONS Narratives of Taiwan Identity ¿The Politics of Ambivalence¿ CONCLUSION Social Grafting Hoko versus Baojia: The 1930s Bringing War Back into the History War, Colonial Rule, and the Japanese Legacy APPENDIXES REFERENCES GLOSSARY INDEXES
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Japan -- Colonies -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century.
Taiwan -- History -- 1895-1945.
Social control -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century.