1st Edition

Taiwan in Japan’s Empire-Building An Institutional Approach to Colonial Engineering

By Hui-yu Caroline Tsai Copyright 2009
352 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

342 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

352 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the institutions through which Taiwan was governed under Japanese colonial rule, illuminating how the administration was engineered and how Taiwan was placed in Japan’s larger empire building. The author argues that rather than envisaging the ruling of the society and then going on to frame policies accordingly Japanese rule in Taiwan was more ad hoc: utilizing and integrating... Read more

 

Biography

Hui-yu Caroline Ts'ai is associate research fellow at Academia Sinica, Taiwan