Type of Credit: Elective
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Since the mid-19th century, Japan has encountered challenges from within and without, and experienced transformation—within the span of merely a century—from an isolated and divided island nation to a vast empire with a full-fledged mechanism of colonization and imperial expansion, and—ironically—an island nation again after 1945. And more importantly, Japan’s colonial empire fundamentally changed Asia and beyond. This course will take students to re-visit the history and legacy of Japanese colonization by examining key events that had shaped and/or are still shaping Japan and Asia.
能力項目說明
This course will provide students an overview of the historical development of Japan’s colonial empire, with an emphasis on the first half of the 20th century. The content of this course aims to enable students to better understand contemporary political, social, and cultural affairs concerning Japan and Asia in general in the historical context of imperialism and de-colonization.
Week 1: Course Overview; Review of Syllabus; Population and Geography; history of Japan before mid-19th century
Week 2: Internal Unrest, External Forces, and “Meiji Restoration”
Reading: Ramon H. Myers and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945. Princeton University Press, 1984: Part 1
Reading: Alexander Bukh, Japan’s National Identity and Foreign Policy: Russia as Japan’s ‘Other’. Routledge, London and New York, 2009
Week 3: 1st Attempt of (Southward) Expansion: Ryukyu and Taiwan, 1870s
Reading: Ramon H. Myers and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945. Princeton University Press, 1984: Part 2
Week 4: Japanese Colonization of Taiwan
Reading: Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945. Princeton University Press, 1996: Part 1
Week 5: Japan and Korea
Reading: Jun Uchida, Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945. (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2011)
Reading: Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson, eds., Colonial Modernity in Korea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999
Reading: Alexis Dudden, Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power. University of Hawaii Press, 2005
Week 6: Japan and WWI
Reading: Frederick Dickenson, War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919 (Harvard University Press, 1999)
Week 7: Japan and China
Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937. Princeton University Press, 1989
Reading: Reading: Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945. Princeton University Press, 1996: Part 2
Week 8: Japan and Manchuria/Manchukuo
Reading: Louise Young, Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998
Reading: Owen Lattimore, “Chinese Colonization in Manchuria,” Geographical Review, Vol. 22, no. 2, (April 1932), 177-195.
Week 9: Mid-term review; Final Project proposal due
Week 10: Japan and Southeast Asia: colonizer VS. colonizer
Reading: Ken'ichi Goto, Tensions of Empire: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003
Reading: Takashi Shiraishi and Saya S. Shiraishi, eds., The Japanese in Colonial Southeast Asia. Cornell University Press, 1993
Week 11: Japan and Southeast Asia: colonizer VS. colonized
Reading: Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945. Princeton University Press, 1996: Part 3
Reading: Satoshi Nakano, Japan's Colonial Moment in Southeast Asia 1942–1945: The Occupiers’ Experience. New York: Routledge, 2018
Week 12: Trans-Pacific Colonization
Reading: Eiichiro Azuma, In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2019
Reading: Sidney Xu Lu, The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism, Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Week 13: Colonization and Culture
Reading: Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler, eds., Tensions of Empire: Colonial Culture in a Bourgeois World. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997
Reading: Nicholas B. Dirks, ed., Colonialism and Culture. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1992
Week 14: Colonial Legacy in Taiwan
Reading: Liao Ping-hui and David Der-wei Wang, eds., Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895–1945: History, Culture, Memory. Columbia University Press, 2006
Reading: Amae, Yoshihisa, “Pro-colonial or Postcolonial?” (2011)
Week 15: Colonial Legacy in Korea
Reading: Ramon H. Myers and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945. Princeton University Press, 1984: Part 5
Reading: George Akita and Brandon Palmer, Japanese Colonial Legacy in Korea 1910–1945: A New Perspective, by. Portland, Maine: Merwin Asia, 2015
Reading: Reading: Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945. Princeton University Press, 1996: Part 4
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