This week, we start a history of the Japanese occupation of Taiwan. How did Japan come to conquer the island, and what did its conquest entail for the Japanese and for the inhabitants?
Sources
Alsford, Nikki. Transitions to Modernity in Taiwan
Cheung, Sui-Wai, editor. Colonial Administration and Land Reform in East Asia.
Teng, Emma. Taiwan’s Imagined Geography.
Morris, Andrew D. Japanese Taiwan: Colonial Rule and its Contested Legacy.
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5 thoughts on “Episode 252 – The Beautiful Island, Part 1”
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It isn’t showing up on the libsynch site too.
http://historyofjapan.libsyn.com/
Please fix or give a link to the episode if it is on a different site.
Problem solved! Thanks for the heads up.
Hey Isaac, was the show delayed this week? I need my fix 🙂
This is what I get for trying to be fancy and trying to postdate a bunch of things while I was away camping. Fixed! Sorry.
Thanks 🙂 Hopfully camping was fun!