Japanese Colonial Education in Taiwan, 1895-1945.

1978 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 364
Author(s):  
Edward I-Te Chen ◽  
E. Patricia Tsurumi
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Education ◽  
Japanese Colonial

The Word Is Mightier than the Throne: Bucking Colonial Education Trends in Manchukuo

2009 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 895-925 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Hall
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Whole Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Colonial Education ◽  
Japanese Empire ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Japanese Colonial ◽  
Whole Language Education ◽  
Imperial Family ◽  
The Military

Japanese within the Manchukuo education bureaucracy stood out from their contemporaries in other Japanese colonies in their opposition to including militaristic and Japanese emperor-centered materials in the schools. As late as 1943, they published textbooks that focused on the students' daily lives rather than on encouraging respect for the military or reverence for the Japanese imperial family. Here, the author discusses how the congruence of an attempt by Manchukuo authorities at gaining authenticity and the progressive background of leading Japanese educators in the region brought about an education system that was unlike any other in the Japanese empire. Using Manchukuo textbooks, education journals, and postwar memoirs, the author examines a school of thought among Japanese colonial language educators, referred to as “reform optimists,” who held that whole language education could solve the contradiction between Manchukuo's stated ideal of ethnic equality and the reality of Japanese domination.

Japanese Colonial Education in Taiwan, 1895-1945

1978 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 256
Author(s):  
Ching-Chih Chen ◽  
E. Patricia Tsurumi
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Education ◽  
Japanese Colonial

Ming-cheng M. Lo. Doctors Within Borders: Profession, Ethnicity, and Modernity in Colonial Taiwan. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002.

2005 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-230
Author(s):  
Chieko Nakajima
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Professional Culture ◽  
Ethnic Community ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Colonial Education ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Japanese Colonial

In Doctors Within Borders, Ming-cheng Lo discusses the experience of Taiwanese doctors under Japanese colonial rule. By examining the viewpoints of colonial subjects, this work expands our understanding of colonialism in East Asia. The position of Taiwanese doctors continuously fluctuated between the colonial state, Taiwan society, and the culture of their medical profession. These doctors were ‘in-betweens’ in various ways. They received colonial education, and benefited from the Japanese rule, but at the same time they were a part of the Taiwan ethnic community. Though they enjoyed liberalism and autonomy within their professional culture, they remained subordinate to their Japanese mentors and colleagues. While they were the most modernized or ‘Japanized’ elements in Taiwan, they nonetheless engaged in social movements and contributed to the formation of Taiwan's civil society.

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