Tag: 1930s
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Request for Divorce
Introduction by Tadashi Ishikawa, University of Central Florida (Orlando, FL, U.S.A.). Published on Dec 18, 2020. Ms. Liao Yinghua’s divorce case against Mr. Chen Junxiu presents sources of information that revealed the layered development of law in the interwar Japanese empire, the woman question, and gender and sexuality. Both civil and criminal law, as well as their… Read more
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Secret Story of Cross-Border Smuggling
Introduction by Joseph Seeley, University of Virginia. Published on Dec 18, 2020. Smuggling had long thrived along the fluid Sino-Korean border spaces of the Yalu and Tumen Rivers, but a number a factors caused it to explode—both in terms of sheer numbers and pop cultural impact—during the early 1930s. Rural impoverishment in Depression-era northern Korea… Read more
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Fulfilling the Targets
Introduction by Christopher Craig, Tohoku University. Published on Dec 18, 2020. One of the most prominent and emblematic initiatives pursued domestically in support of the Japanese imperial project was the creation and implementation of Manchurian Branch Village Emigration Plans (Manshū bunson imin keikaku). Formulated initially on a voluntary basis by local leaders in a handful of… Read more
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Youth Associations and Thought Guidance
Introduction by Sayaka Chatani, National University of Singapore. Published on Jan 19, 2021. At the beginning of colonial rule of Taiwan, Japanese-built elementary schools were not popular among elite Taiwanese families, who continued to appreciate Chinese classics. Public schools spread in cities and even in remote rural areas relatively quickly, however, once Taiwanese population realized… Read more
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My Proposal for an Interethnic Marriage Was Refused
Introduction by Alison J Darby, The Australian National University (Canberra). Published on May 06, 2021. How best to manage intimate relationships between Japanese and their Taiwanese and Korean colonial subjects was a key problem for Japanese colonial authorities. Unlike most Anglo-European empires, Japanese colonial authorities endorsed interethnic marriage and racial mixing. The Government-General of Taiwan… Read more
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寂然上人碑 Stele to the Venerable Master Jiran
Introduction by Jonathan Henshaw, Academia Sinica. Published on Oct 19, 2022. Listed among the items in the Immoveable Cultural Relics database in China’s Jiangsu Province is the Stele to the Venerable Master Jiran, a unique artefact located at Qixia Temple in the eastern suburbs of Nanjing, pre-war capital of the Republic of China. Built from 483-489… Read more
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Kondō the Barbarian and Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples
Taiwan was annexed as a condition of the Treaty of Shimonoseki signed by the Qing and Japanese imperial governments on April 17, 1895. From the 1895 annexation through 1902, Han (Chinese) Taiwanese rebels fought sustained guerrilla campaigns against the new Japanese government in the western half of the island. Eastern Taiwan, including the island’s majestic… Read more