{"product_id":"9781472576743","title":"Japanese Taiwan: Colonial Rule and its Contested Legacy","description":"Colonial agents worked for fifty years to make a Japanese Taiwan, using  technology, culture, statistics, trade, and modern ideologies to remake  their new territory according to evolving ideas of Japanese empire.   Since the end of the Pacific War, this project has been remembered,  imagined, nostalgized, erased, commodified, manipulated, idealized and  condemned by different sectors of Taiwan's population. \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe volume covers a range of topics,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eincluding colonial-era photography, exploration, postwar deportation, sport, film, media, economic planning, contemporary Japanese influences on Taiwanese popular culture, and recent nostalgia for and misunderstandings about the colonial era. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJapanese Taiwan\u003c\/i\u003e provides an interdisciplinary perspective on these related processes of colonization and decolonization, explaining how the memories, scars and traumas of the colonial era have been utilized during the postwar period. It provides a unique critique of the 'Japaneseness' of the erstwhile Chinese Taiwan, thus bringing new scholarship to bear on problems in contemporary East Asian politics.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182990278896,"sku":"9781472576743","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781472576743_p0.jpg?v=1763598260","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781472576743","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}