The Musha Incident : : A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan / / ed. by Michael Berry.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Barclay, Paul D,; Berry, Michael,; Ching, Leo,; Chiu, Kuei-fen,; Eki Pacidal, Nakao,; Kitamura, Kae,; Liao, Ping-hui,; Rayns, Tony,; Roy, Toulouse-Antonin,; Sterk, Darryl,; Tierney, Robert,; Wu, Chien-heng,
• HerausgeberIn: Berry, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Global Chinese Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 16 images

On October 27, 1930, members of six Taiwanese indigenous groups ambushed the Japanese attendees of an athletic competition at the Musha Elementary School, killing 134. The uprising came as a shock to Japanese colonial authorities, whose response was swift and brutal. Heavy artillery and battalions of troops assaulted the region, spraying a wide area with banned poison gas. The Seediq from Mhebu, who led the uprising, were brought to the brink of genocide.Over the ensuing decades, the Musha Incident became seen as a central moment in Taiwan’s colonial history, and different political regimes and movements have seized on it for various purposes. Under the Japanese, it was 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 portrayed the Seediq people and their history as exemplars of Taiwan’s “authentic” cultural traditions, which stand apart from that of mainland China.This book brings together leading scholars to provide new perspectives on one of the most traumatic episodes in Taiwan’s modern history and its fraught legacies. Contributors from a variety of disciplines revisit the Musha Incident and its afterlife in history, literature, film, art, and popular culture. They unravel the complexities surrounding it by confronting a history of exploitation, contradictions, and misunderstandings. The book also features conversations with influential cultural figures in Taiwan who have attempted to tell the story of the uprising.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on Romanization -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Approaching Musha -- PART I Historical Memories of Musha -- CHAPTER ONE The Discourse and Practice of Colonial “Suppression” in the Making of the Musha Rebellion and Its Aftermath -- CHAPTER TWO The Musha Incident and the History of Tgdaya-Japanese Relations -- CHAPTER THREE Relistening to Her and His Stories On Approaching “The Musha Incident from an Indigenous Perspective” -- PART II Literary Memories of Musha -- CHAPTER FOUR Bodies and Violence in the Musha Incident -- CHAPTER FIVE Musha Incident, Incidentally: Tsushima Yūko’s Exceedingly Barbaric -- CHAPTER SIX Satō Haruo on the Musha Incident -- CHAPTER SEVEN Untimely Meditations: The Contemporary, the Philosophy of Walking, and Related Ethical Matters in Remains of Life -- PART III Visual and Digital Memories of Musha -- CHAPTER EIGHT The Face of the Inbetweener: The Image of Indigenous History Researchers as Reflected in Seediq Bale -- CHAPTER NINE Quest for Roots: Trauma and Heroism in Wu He’s Yusheng and Tang Shiang-Chu’s Yusheng: Seediq Bale -- CHAPTER TEN Historical Representation in an Age of Wiki Writing and Digital Curation: The Musha Incident on Digital Platforms -- PART IV Musha in Cultural Dialogue -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Fiction and Fieldwork: In Conversation with Wu He on Remains of Life -- CHAPTER TWELVE Heavy Metal Headhunt: An Interview with Chthonic’s Freddy Lim -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Televising the Musha Incident: Wan Jen on the Miniseries Dana Sakura -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN No Good Guys or Bad Guys: An Interview with Wei Te-sheng -- Contributors -- Index