lecture summary

Answer 4 questions (attachment) in 1 page length. (do not repeat the questions itself, just label #1-4 )Please use “images pdf” and “Taiwan literature and history” as reference to answer the 4 questions. 

It’s due 1/26 Friday 

Main Questions

1. How do we study Taiwan, and what does it mean to study Taiwan?

2. Is Taiwan a place, a people, a society? What is its history?

3. How do empires and polities “know” their subject populations? How do they create knowledge about these populations?

4. How do we understand the historiography—the history of history writing—of Taiwan? How have various people written about the history of Taiwan in the past?

Key Terms/Figures

Qing Empire (1644-1911); ruled Taiwan 1683-1895

Fujian Province

Opium Wars (1839-1842; 1856-1860); treaty-port system

“Sino-centric” world order

Ryukyu Kingdom (now Okinawa Prefecture, Japan)

Paiwan (group indigenous to southern part of Taiwan)

Gotō Shinpei, head of civilian affairs in Japanese colonial government (Taiwan Government-General) Okamatsu Santarō, legal scholar and head of the Committee for the Investigation of Old Customs