Becoming Japanese - Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation - Paperback - 2001

In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the SinoJapanese war. This work examines the formation of Taiwanese political and cultural identities under the dominant Japanese colonial discourse of assimilation and imperialization kominka from the early 1920s to the end of the Japanese Empire in 1945.
Year of publication: 2001
Pagination: 263 pages
Format: Paperback