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Assessing Chiang Kai-Shek’s Good and Harm
I have been reading random materials in the East Asian Library at school recently, and I bumped into this report on the national survey in December 11, 2007 Lian-he bao. 誰貢獻大》蔣經國50% 扁5%與蔣中正相當 (Who...
View ArticleA New Move for the Compensation for Korean/Taiwanese BC criminals?
朝鮮半島・台湾出身の元ＢＣ級戦犯に補償案 議員立法初提出へ
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Summer Vacation Started: LA & Taiwan
Since I finished my semester around May 10th, I have been going back and forth between NY and DC until May 28th, when I finally packed and left NY for my summer Asia trip. My first stop was Los...
View ArticleMuninn’s Satires
Muninn has been posting really fun articles at his blog recently. Since I share common interests, and probably have similar background knowledge to some extent, I really enjoy his satires in these...
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Summer 2008
One of very important reasons to stay being a student and to work in academia is the long summer (and winter) vacation. It is not really a ‘vacation’ since we usually have lots of work, but we have a...
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Colonial Education in Taiwan (1) Dōka Policy
Colonial education is one of the most popular research topics especially in Taiwanese academia, and I am afraid that I am very ignorant of the major literature in Taiwan. I will post a part of my term...
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Colonial Education in Taiwan (2) Taiwan Kyōiku journal
The main ‘research’ part of my paper looked at 12 issues of the journal 台湾教育 (Taiwan Kyōiku), published in 1940. The year 1940 was chosen out of a mere technical problem of accessibility to the...
View ArticleWhat I am doing in Taiwan
One and half months ago when I arrived in Taiwan, I had no idea where I would be picking a case from. One month into my research here, I was at the peak of uncertainty — I could not find definitive...
View Article大正生まれ
「大正生まれの者だと言って、日本の新聞に投稿してやりました。」初めて訪ねる老人に言われたときはしっくりこなかった。「国鉄の職員、飽くまで公務員が、何万という利用者がいるのにストライキだなんて、許しちゃいけないって。」正直、私の歳では国鉄職員のストライキさえ記憶の範疇か、際どいところだ。日本統治時代の台湾の話を聞く前のウォームアップのはずだったのに、聞き出すどころか、すでに押されている。机の上に伏せて...
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Form Over Content
Recently I did a few sessions of interviews with a 92 year-old Korean gentleman about his experiences during the colonial period. He is a superhero for my Korea research. On the first day of the...
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