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CHIN 091: Taiwan in Transition under Japanese Colonial Rule (SC)

CHIN 091: Taiwan in Transition under Japanese Colonial Rule: Literature, Material Culture, & Social Movements (Li) Fall 2021

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Icones of the Bamboos of Japan 1912 Yasumi Shirasawa

Digital Taiwan

Digital Taiwan is a collaboration between the National Digital Archives, Academica Sinica, the National Palace Museum, National Taiwan University and many other public and private cultural institutions in Taiwan.

The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan

This sourcebook contains documents and writings that reflect the development of Taiwanese literature from the early modern period to the 21st century. Selections include seminal essays in literary debates; interviews, diaries, and letters by major authors; literary-society manifestos and inaugural journal prefaces; and governmental policy pronouncements that have significantly influenced Taiwanese literature.

Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule, 1895 - 1945

This volume brings together seventeen essays 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 portrait of a pivotal time in the formation of Taiwanese national identity.