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SUMMARY:The Problem of the Chinese Periphery: Administration and National 
 Identity in Taiwan\, 1945-1949 - Tehyun Ma\, Bristol
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CONTACT:Su Lin Lewis
DESCRIPTION:In October 1945\, Taiwan was handed back to China after\nfifty
  years of Japanese rule. Restoration to the Fatherland was\nwarmly welcome
 d by the islanders\, but government maladministration quickly weakened sup
 port for the new regime. A little over a year later an island-wide uprisin
 g broke out against the Chinese state\, which responded with indiscriminat
 e violence. When the dust settled\, about ten thousand Taiwanese were dead
  or missing.  This paper examines how the "reunion" between China and Taiw
 an took such a tragic turn. I will explore what became known as the "Incid
 ent" by embedding the event in the broader context of war in China in the 
 1930s and 1940s. Here\, I will try to demonstrate that the clash between t
 he new government and the islanders was both rooted in the state of the po
 stwar Chinese state\, and the place of Taiwan within the Chinese Nationali
 st imagination: a position profoundly shaped by colonial encounters\, long
  wars of attrition\, and enemy occupation. These factors (administrative a
 nd ideological) structured the traumatic encounter between mainlanders and
  islanders after 1945.
LOCATION:Library Seminar Room\, 1st Floor\, St. John's Library
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