Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel
Pro-colonial or postcolonial? Appropriation of Japanese colonial heritage in present-day Taiwan
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.
- Weitere Titel
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Prokolonial oder postkolonial? Verwendung des japanischen kolonialen Erbes im gegenwärtigen Taiwan
- ISSN
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1868-4874
- Umfang
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Seite(n): 19-62
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Erschienen in
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Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 40(1)
- Thema
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Internationale Beziehungen
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
kollektives Gedächtnis
Japan
Erinnerung
Asien
Herrschaft
historische Analyse
Taiwan
Krieg
Zeitgeschichte
postkoloniale Gesellschaft
Denkmal
Religion
Hybridität
Kultur
Nationalismus
deskriptive Studie
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Amae, Yoshihisa
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wo)
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Deutschland
- (wann)
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2011
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-4-4034
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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21.06.2024, 16:27 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Beteiligte
- Amae, Yoshihisa
Entstanden
- 2011
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