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Pro-colonial or postcolonial? Appropriation of Japanese colonial heritage in present-day Taiwan
Prokolonial oder postkolonial? Verwendung des japanischen kolonialen Erbes im gegenwärtigen Taiwan
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Abstract Since the end of World War II, the Kuomintang (KMT) (Guomindang) government has erased all traces of Japanese rule from public space, deeming them 'poisonous' to the people in Taiwan. This frenzy, often termed 'de-Japanization' or qu Ribenhua in Chinese, included the destruction and alteration of Ja... mehr
Since the end of World War II, the Kuomintang (KMT) (Guomindang) government has erased all traces of Japanese rule from public space, deeming them 'poisonous' to the people in Taiwan. This frenzy, often termed 'de-Japanization' or qu Ribenhua in Chinese, included the destruction and alteration of Japanese structures. Yet, with democratization in the 1990s, the Japanese past has been revisited, and many Japanese structures have been reconstructed and preserved. This paper examines the social phenomenon of preserving Japanese heritage in present-day Taiwan. It mainly investigates religious/ spiritual architecture, such as Shinto shrines and martial arts halls (Butokuden), war monuments and Japanese statues and busts. A close investigation of these monuments finds that many of them are not restored and preserved in their original form but in a deformed/ transformed one. This finding leads the paper to conclude that the phenomenon is a postcolonial endeavor, rather than being "pro-colonial", and that the preservation of Japanese heritage contributes to the construction and consolidation of a Taiwan-centric historiography in which Taiwan is imagined as multicultural and hybrid.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
kollektives Gedächtnis; Japan; Erinnerung; Asien; Herrschaft; historische Analyse; Taiwan; Krieg; Zeitgeschichte; postkoloniale Gesellschaft; Denkmal; Religion; Hybridität; Kultur; Nationalismus
Klassifikation
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie
Methode
deskriptive Studie
Freie Schlagwörter
Social science; applied science; architecture and design; colonial history; preservation of historical monuments; contemporary
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2011
Seitenangabe
S. 19-62
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 40 (2011) 1
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung