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Title The Musha Incident : a reader on the indigenous uprising in colonial Taiwan / edited by Michael Berry
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 296 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Global Chinese culture
Global Chinese culture.
Contents Intro -- Table of Contents -- A Note on Romanization -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Approaching Musha, by Michael Berry -- Part I. Historical Memories of Musha -- 1. The Discourse and Practice of Colonial "Suppression" in the Making of the Musha Rebellion and Its Aftermath, by Toulouse-Antonin Roy -- 2. The Musha Incident and the History of Tgdaya-Japanese Relations, by Paul D. Barclay -- 3. Relistening to Her and His Stories: On Approaching "The Musha Incident from an Indigenous Perspective,"by Kae Kitamura -- Part II. Literary Memories of Musha
4. Bodies and Violence in the Musha Incident, by Robert Tierney -- 5. Musha Incident, Incidentally: Tsushima Yūko's Exceedingly Barbaric, by Leo Ching -- 6. Satō Haruo on the Musha Incident, by Ping-hui Liao -- 7. Untimely Meditations: The Contemporary, the Philosophy of Walking, and Related Ethical Matters in Remains of Life, by Chien-heng Wu -- Part III. Visual and Digital Memories of Musha -- 8. The Face of the Inbetweener: The Image of Indigenous History Researchers as Reflected in Seediq Bale, by Nakao Eki Pacidal
9. Quest for Roots: Trauma and Heroism in Wu He's Yusheng and Tang Shiang-Chu's Yusheng: Seediq Bale, by Darryl Sterk -- 10. Historical Representation in an Age of Wiki Writing and Digital Curation: The Musha Incident on Digital Platforms, by Kuei-fen Chiu -- Part IV. Musha in Cultural Dialogue -- 11. Fiction and Fieldwork: In Conversation with Wu He on Remains of Life, by Michael Berry -- 12. Heavy Metal Headhunt: An Interview with Chthonic's Freddy Lim, by Michael Berry -- 13. Televising the Musha Incident: Wan Jen on the Miniseries Dana Sakura, by Michael Berry
14. No Good Guys or Bad Guys: An Interview with Wei Te-sheng, by Tony Rayns (translated by Christa Chen) -- Contributors -- Index
Summary "On October 27, 1930, members of six indigenous tribes ambushed and killed 134 Japanese attending a sporting event at the local Musha Elementary School. The Japanese government had looked at Musha as a "model village" under their colonial policies and their response was swift and brutal, almost wiping out the Seediq tribe, which had led the uprising. Over the course of the ensuing eight decades, the Musha Incident has been repeatedly appropriated by different political regimes in Taiwan for various political purposes. Under the Japanese it was often used to attest to the "barbarity" of Taiwan's indigenous tribes; the Nationalist regime cited the uprising as proof of the Taiwanese peoples' heroism and solidarity with the Chinese in resisting the Japanese; and pro-independence groups in Taiwan have sought to use the Seediq people and their history as a means of highlighting Taiwan's unique and "authentic" cultural tradition, which stands apart from that of mainland China. This book attempts to unravel some of the complexities surrounding the Musha Incident and its legacy by bringing together contributors from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, linguistics, history, film, literary studies, cultural studies, and oral history, to revisit the Musha Incident and its afterlife in popular culture"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 06, 2022)
Subject Musha Rebellion, 1930.
Musha Rebellion, 1930 -- Historiography
History in popular culture -- Taiwan
HISTORY / Asia / Japan.
Historiography
History in popular culture
Taiwan
Form Electronic book
Author Berry, Michael, 1974- editor.
LC no. 2021035694
ISBN 9780231552189
0231552181