The first study of colonial Taiwan in English, this volume brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars to construct a comprehensive cultural history of Taiwan under Japanese rule. Contributors from the United States, Japan, and Taiwan explore a number of topics through a variety of theoretical, comparative, and postcolonial perspectives, painting a complex and nuanced ...(展开全部)

The first study of colonial Taiwan in English, this volume brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars to construct a comprehensive cultural history of Taiwan under Japanese rule. Contributors from the United States, Japan, and Taiwan explore a number of topics through a variety of theoretical, comparative, and postcolonial perspectives, painting a complex and nuanced ...(展开全部)

In Imperial Gateway, Seiji Shirane explores the political, social, and economic significance of colonial Taiwan in the southern expansion of Japan's empire from 1895 to the end of the Second World War. Challenging understandings of empire that focus on bilateral relations between metropole and colonial periphery, Shirane uncovers a half-century of dynamic relations between Japa...(展开全部)

During Japan's colonial rule over Korea from 1910 until the end of World War II, Japan adopted assimilation as its administrative policy but was unable to integrate the Korean people as Japanese. In "Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945", Mark Caprio traces the history of this policy to determine why Japan failed to attain its stated goals. In his search ...(展开全部)

In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. For the next fifty years, Japanese rule devastated and transformed the entire socioeconomic and political fabric of Taiwanese society. In "Becoming Japanese", Leo Ching examines the formation of Taiwanese political and cultural identities under the dominant Japanese col...(展开全部)

In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. For the next fifty years, Japanese rule devastated and transformed the entire socioeconomic and political fabric of Taiwanese society. In "Becoming Japanese", Leo Ching examines the formation of Taiwanese political and cultural identities under the dominant Japanese col...(展开全部)

In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. For the next fifty years, Japanese rule devastated and transformed the entire socioeconomic and political fabric of Taiwanese society. In "Becoming Japanese", Leo Ching examines the formation of Taiwanese political and cultural identities under the dominant Japanese col...(展开全部)

重新审视这段我们熟悉却陌生的日本历史 4条线索，全景式呈现日本帝国兴衰起落的50年 ◎编辑推荐 1.这50年的历史，我们只知道结果，却从未关心过程； 我们看似熟知甲午战争、九一八事变等事件，但其成因、过程、人物的动机，却不甚明了。本书恰恰通过追究此类历史书写中“不甚明了”“一笔带过”的重要事件的深层动因和发生机制，填补过往认知中“日本为何以及如何侵略”的关键过程。 2.四条线索、全景式洞悉日本帝国的兴衰起落； 提供内政、外交、战争和历史人物四条线索，多维度还原日本帝国崛起与崩溃的多重原因。究竟谁来承担日本帝国堕入深渊的责任？是天皇、政治家，还是官僚、不法之徒，甚至不成熟的民众？恐怕都难逃其责。 3.拿起“微距镜头”，还原甲午战争、九一八事变、珍珠港事件等历史转折点前，日本社会的众生百态； 本书将历史的“微距镜头”转入“舞台后方”——明治天皇明明不想开...(展开全部)

This is a study of the origins and nature of Japanese imperialism from the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895 through to 1945. Japan is the only Asian country in modern times to have built both a successful industrial economy and an empire, and it is Professor Beasley's contention that these two phenomena are closely related. Japan's aims were influenced by its experience of wester...(展开全部)