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  • Commentary on Discriminatory Rice Policy

    Commentary on Discriminatory Rice Policy

    Introduction by Chan Qiu Qing (Supervised by Sayaka Chatani), National University of Singapore. Published on Dec 21, 2020. Rice has long been a significant livelihood issue to the populations of East Asia. The procurement of this staple food was of critical importance to many regimes. In the early twentieth century, the Japanese government faced a variety of… Read more

  • Youth Associations and Thought Guidance

    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

  • Justo Cabo Chan and the Chinese in the Philippines during the Japanese Occupation

    Justo Cabo Chan and the Chinese in the Philippines during the Japanese Occupation

    Introduction by Chien-Wen Kung, National University of Singapore. Published on April 11, 2021. This document features excerpts from a much longer essay written by Philippine-Chinese businessman Justo Cabo Chan (Zeng Tingquan) after World War II and published (in Chinese) in the second volume of the 1948 Philippine-Chinese Chronicle. Born in the Philippines, Cabo Chan was a… Read more

  • Reasons for Requesting the Establishment of a Taiwanese Parliament

    Reasons for Requesting the Establishment of a Taiwanese Parliament

    Introduction by James Gerien-Chen, University of Florida. Published on Oct 19, 2022. In January 1923, a group of young Taiwanese men delivered a petition to the headquarters of the Taipei Police to request permission to form the “League for the Establishment of a Taiwan Parliament” (Taiwan gikai kisei dōmeikai). After the colonial police denied their… Read more

  • Kondō the Barbarian and Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples

    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

  • “We Are Two Sisters”: Korean and Taiwan Anti-Japanese Volunteers in China

    “We Are Two Sisters”: Korean and Taiwan Anti-Japanese Volunteers in China

    Introduction by Shaun Lee Yi Xian (Supervised by Sayaka Chatani), National University of Singapore. Published on Jul 31, 2023. Despite not being a Japanese colony, China became a site of many Korean and Taiwanese nationalist efforts in the 1920s. This was so especially before the Kuomintang (KMT; Nationalists)–Chinese Communist Party (CCP) United Front ended and… Read more