One Lifetime; Two Generations - Retracing Life History of Hualien Inhabitants under Japan's Colonial Education in Taiwan

Autor: Mei-Lin Huang, 黃美玲
Rok vydání: 2011
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 99
Departing from the assimilation-oriented official language education, known as Douka Education, implemented in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period, this study aims to understand the impact of such thorough Japanization by probing into eight Taiwanese elders, residents of Juisui Xiang in Hualien County, who either received education or graduated from the Mizuho Common School during the Japanese colonial period. Although the subjects have undergone in their lifetimes two different generations, they embrace only one life style as well as one language, Japanese. The research methods adopted for conducting the study are Historical Research Method and Field Study, and In-depth Interview. The historical research method is employed to review the previous literature related to Douka education, and to analyze the achievements as well as identify the shortcomings. Both field study and in-depth interview are employed to acquire the course contents of common schools, interactions between teachers and students, and functions of ceremonies and activities. Furthermore, the concept proposed by Foucault that discipline is detailed political investment of the bodies is incorporated into the theoretical structure of this study to probe into via psychological transition, daily-life ethics, and moral conducts the views of life and the personal values of the eight elders educated to identify with Japan and pledge loyalty to its Emperor through the common school system established in Taiwan strictly based on the whole disciplinary power.
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