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Becoming Taiwanese : Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s-1950s /

"Examines the first era of Taiwanese identity construction, the first half of the twentieth century, in a place that served as a crucible for new identities, the northern port city of Jilong (Keelung). Part colonial urban social history, part exploration of the relationship between modern ethni...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dawley, Evan N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Building and populating a vanguard city
  • "Love of city and love of self" : constructing identities in the crucible of Jilong
  • "Civilization enters here" : local elites, social organizations, and the reterritorialization of Jilong
  • Sacred spaces : religions and the construction of identities
  • Realms of welfare : social work and border defense
  • Defining new boundaries in the reconstruction of Jilong, 1945-1947
  • Ethnicity, nationalism, and the re-creation of Jilong, 1945-1955
  • Epilogue : History, memory, and the usage and utility of Taiwanese ethnicity.