Articles

American voyagers look Taiwan under the Japanese Rule

Vostok/Oriens '2016, №3

 
This article deals with books of three American voyagers who visited Taiwan (Formosa) under Japanese rule in the 1920s. All the authors came to Taiwan as tourists and their voyages were strictly controlled by local Japanese authorities. Two of them were official guests of the office of Governor-General. Not much valuable as a depiction of real situation, all these works demonstrated the mechanism of Japanese “colonial image-making”, forms and methods used to propagate the modernization effectuated by the Japanese in their first and “model” colonial possession.

Keywords: Japan, Taiwan (Formosa), USA, colonialism, modernization, propaganda, image-making, tourism

Pages: С. 85–95