What does it mean to be Taiwanese? This question sits at the heart of Taiwan's modern history and its place in the world. In contrast to the prevailing scholarly focus on Taiwan after 1987, Becoming Taiwanese examines the important first era in the history of Taiwanese identity construction during the early twentieth century, in the place that served as the crucible for the formation of new identities: the northern port city of Jilong (Keelung).
Part colonial urban social history, part exploration of the relationship between modern ethnicity and nationalism, Becoming Taiwanese offers new insights into ethnic identity formation. Evan Dawley examines how people from China's southeastern coast became rooted in Taiwan; how the transfer to Japanese colonial rule established new contexts and relationships that promoted the formation of distinct urban, ethnic, and national identities; and how the so-called retrocession to China replicated earlier patterns and reinforced those same identities. Based on original research in Taiwan and Japan, and focused on the settings and practices of social organizations, religion, and social welfare, as well as the local elites who served as community gatekeepers, Becoming Taiwanese fundamentally challenges our understanding of what it means to be Taiwanese.

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Published by the Harvard University Asia Center

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Harvard East Asian monographs, 420, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2019

United States, United States of America

Illustrated, FR, 2019

Apr 16, 2019

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Source title: Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s to 1950s (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s to 1950s 3
Contents 7
List of Figures, Tables, Maps 9
Acknowledgments 13
Abbreviations 17
Note to the Reader 21
Introduction 23
1. Building and Populating a Vanguard City 49
2. “Love of City and Love of Self ”: Constructing Identities in the Crucible of Jilong 100
3. “Civilization Enters Here”: Local Elites, Social Organizations, and the Reterritorialization of Jilong 141
4. Sacred Spaces: Religions and the Construction of Identities 183
5. Realms of Welfare: Social Work and Border Defense 227
6. Defining New Boundaries in the Reconstruction of Jilong, 1945–1947 269
7. Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Re-creation of Jilong, 1945–1955 312
Epilogue: History, Memory, and the Usage and Utility of Taiwanese Ethnicity 353
Glossary 371
Bibliography 375
Index 413
HARVARD EAST ASIAN MONOGRAPHS 437

"Examines the first era of Taiwanese identity construction, the first half of the twentieth century, in a place that served as a crucible for new identities, the northern port city of Jilong (Keelung). Part colonial urban social history, part exploration of the relationship between modern ethnicity and nationalism, offering important new answers to questions of ethnic identity formation"--Provided by publisher

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