Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895–1945: History, Culture, Memory (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)

The first study of colonial Taiwan in English, this volume brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars to construct a comprehensive cultural history of Taiwan under Japanese rule. Contributors from the United States, Japan, and Taiwan explore a number of topics through a variety of theoretical, comparative, and postcolonial perspectives, painting a complex and nuanced portrait of a pivotal time in the formation of Taiwanese national identity. Essays are grouped into four categories: rethinking colonialism and modernity; colonial policy and cultural change; visual culture and literary expressions; and from colonial rule to postcolonial independence. Their unique analysis considers all elements of the Taiwanese colonial experience, concentrating on land surveys and the census; transcolonial coordination; the education and recruitment of the cultural elite; the evolution of print culture and national literature; the effects of subjugation, coercion, discrimination, and governmentality; and the root causes of the ethnic violence that dominated the postcolonial era. The contributors encourage readers to rethink issues concerning history and ethnicity, cultural hegemony and resistance, tradition and modernity, and the romancing of racial identity. Their examination not only provides a singular understanding of Taiwan's colonial past, but also offers insight into Taiwan's relationship with China, Japan, and the United States today. Focusing on a crucial period in which the culture and language of Taiwan, China, and Japan became inextricably linked, __Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule__ effectively broadens the critique of colonialism and modernity in East Asia. Few people realize that prescription drugs have become a leading cause of death, disease, and disability. Adverse reactions to widely used drugs, such as psychotropics and birth control pills, as well as biologicals, result in FDA warnings against adverse reactions.The Risks of Prescription Drugs describes how most drugs approved by the FDA are under-tested for adverse drug reactions, yet offer few new benefits. Drugs cause more than 2.2 million hospitalizations and 110,000 hospital-based deaths a year. Serious drug reactions at home or in nursing homes would significantly raise the total. Women, older people, and people with disabilities are least used in clinical trials and most affected.Health policy experts Donald Light, Howard Brody, Peter Conrad, Allan Horwitz, and Cheryl Stults describe how current regulations reward drug companies to expand clinical risks and create new diseases so millions of patients are exposed to unnecessary risks, especially women and the elderly. They reward developing marginally better drugs rather than discovering breakthrough, life-saving drugs. The Risks of Prescription Drugs tackles critical questions about the pharmaceutical industry and the privatization of risk. To what extent does the FDA protect the public from serious side effects and disasters? What is the effect of giving the private sector and markets a greater role and reducing public oversight? This volume considers whether current rules and incentives put patients'health at greater risk, the effect of the expansion of disease categories, the industry's justification of high U.S. prices, and the underlying shifts in the burden of risk borne by individuals in the world of pharmaceuticals. Chapters cover risks of statins for high cholesterol, SSRI drugs for depression and anxiety, and hormone replacement therapy for menopause. A final chapter outlines six changes to make drugs safer and more effective.Suitable for courses on health and aging, gender, disability, and minority studies, this book identifies the Risk Proliferation Syndrome that maximizes the number of people exposed to these risks.Additional Columbia / SSRC books on the privatization of risk and its implications for Americans:Bailouts: Public Money, Private ProfitEdited by Robert E. WrightDisaster and the Politics of InterventionEdited by Andrew LakoffHealth at Risk: America's Ailing Health System-and How to Heal ItEdited by Jacob S. HackerLaid Off, Laid Low: Political and Economic Consequences of Employment InsecurityEdited by Katherine S. NewmanPensions, Social Security, and the Privatization of RiskEdited by Mitchell A. Orenstein Contents List of Figures List of Tables Preface Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895–1945: History, Culture, Memory Part 1. Rethinking Colonialism and Modernity: Historical and Theoretical Case Studies 1. A Perspective on Studies of Taiwanese Political History: Reconsidering the Postwar Japanese Historiography of Japanese Colonial Rule in Taiwan wakabayashi masahiro 2. The Japanese Colonial State and Its Form of Knowledge in Taiwan 3. The Formation of Taiwanese Identity and the Cultural Policy of Various Outside Regimes 4. Print Culture and the Emergent Public Sphere in Colonial Taiwan, 1895–1945 Part 2. Colonial Policy and Cultural Change 5. Shaping Administration in Colonial Taiwan, 1895–1945 6. The State of Taiwanese Culture and Taiwanese New Literature in 1937: Issues on Banning Chinese Newspaper Sections and Abolishing Chinese Writings 7. Colonial Modernity for an Elite Taiwanese, Lim Bo-seng: The Labyrinth of Cosmopolitanism 8. Hegemony and Identity in the Colonial Experience of Taiwan, 1895–1945 Part 3. Visual Culture and Literary Expressions 9. Confrontation and Collaboration: Traditional Taiwanese Writers’ Canonical Reflection and Cultural Thinking on the New-Old Literatures Debate During the Japanese Colonial Period 10. Colonialism and the Predicament of Identity: Liu Na’ou and Yang Kui as Men of the World 11. Colonial Taiwan and the Construction of Landscape Painting 12. An Author Listening to Voices from the Netherworld: Lu Heruo and the Kuso Realism Debate Part 4. From Colonial to Postcolonial: Redeeming or Recruiting the Other? 13. Reverse Exportation from Japan of the Tale of ‘‘The Bell of Sayon’’: The Central Drama Group’s Taiwanese Performance and Wu Man-sha’s The Bell of Sayon 14. Gender, Ethnography, and Colonial Cultural Production: Nishikawa Mitsuru’s Discourse on Taiwan 15. Were Taiwanese Being ‘‘Enslaved’’? The Entanglement of Sinicization, Japanization, and Westernization 16. Reading the Numbers: Ethnicity, Violence, and Wartime Mobilization in Colonial Taiwan 17. The Nature of Minzoku Taiwan and the Context in Which It Was Published Notes on Contributors Index The first study of colonial Taiwan in English, this volume brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars to construct a comprehensive cultural history of Taiwan under Japanese rule. Contributors from the United States, Japan, and Taiwan explore a number of topics through a variety of theoretical, comparative, and postcolonial perspectives, painting a complex and nuanced portrait of a pivotal time in the formation of Taiwanese national identity. Essays are grouped into four categories: rethinking colonialism and modernity; colonial policy and cultural change; visual culture and literary expressions; and from colonial rule to postcolonial independence. Their unique analysis considers all elements of the Taiwanese colonial experience, concentrating on land surveys and the census; transcolonial coordination; the education and recruitment of the cultural elite; the evolution of print culture and national literature; the effects of subjugation, curcion, discrimination, and governmentality; and the root causes of the ethnic violence that dominated the postcolonial era. The contributors encourage readers to rethink issues concerning history and ethnicity, cultural hegemony and resistance, tradition and modernity, and the romancing of racial identity. Their examination not only provides a singular understanding of Taiwan's colonial past, but also offers insight into Taiwan's relationship with China, Japan, and the United States today. Focusing on a crucial period in which the culture and language of Taiwan, China, and Japan became inextricably linked, Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule effectively broadens the critique of colonialism and modernity in East Asia To what extent does the FDA protect the public from serious side effects and disasters? What is the effect of giving the prvate sector and markets a greater role and reducing public oversight? This book considers whether current rules and incentives put patients' health at greater risk, the effect of the expansion of disease categories, the industry's justification of high U.S. prices, and the underlying shifts in the burden of risk borne by individuals in the world of pharmaceuticals--Cover Bearing the risks of prescription drugs / Donald Light The FDA : inadequate protection from drug disasters and serious risks / Donald Light The commercialization of medical decisions : physicians and patients at risk / Howard Brody Pharmaceuticals and the medicalization of social life / Allan Horwitz Medicalization and risk scares : the case of menopause and HRT / Cheryl Stults and Peter Conrad.