為什麼有些台灣人雖然是被殖民者但仍然懷念日本殖民時期？

底氣、霸氣、牛脾氣！ Confidence, domineering, bull temper! Why are some Taiwanese nostalgic for the Japanese colonial period despite being colonized subjects? It’s about postcolonialism, trauma, and memory: how societies remember their pasts through the lens of the present. A long, scholarly thread: (1/n) 為什麼有些台灣人雖然是被殖民者，但仍然懷念日本殖民時期？ 這是關於後殖民主義、創傷和記憶：社會如何通過現在的鏡頭記住他們的過去。 一個很長的學術線索：（1/n）https://twitter.com/jamestwotree/status/1406006118644551680 
Why are some Taiwanese nostalgic for the Japanese colonial period despite being colonized subjects? It’s about postcolonialism, trauma, and memory: how societies remember their pasts through the lens of the present. A long, scholarly 
Clarissa Wei
@dearclarissa
· Jun 16
i'm getting a surge of nasty comments by people who know v little about taiwanese history, who are offended that i said my grandparents romanticized the japanese colonial era. i'd really appreciate you guys reading the history behind it all first. http://ex-position.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/031-Liang-ya-Liou.pdf…

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Responses to this quoted thread believe that these Taiwanese are duped victims of propaganda or rapacious beneficiaries of a colonial regime that enriched them. While propaganda existed and some (but not all) Taiwanese benefited economically under Japanese rule, these (2/n)
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James Lin
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explanations are not only simplistic and derived from a KMT authoritarian-era political refrain of their Taiwanese subjects, they also do not account for a societal wide phenomenon that persists in 2021, 72 years after colonial rule ended. (3/n)
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James Lin
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KMT rule redistributed much of the landed wealth accumulated by elite Taiwanese families, and implemented a thorough de-Japanification (去日本化) campaigns with plenty of blame directed toward Taiwan's previous colonizers, as explained by scholar Liang-Ya Liou: (4/n)
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James Lin
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So what explains this phenomenon? Postcolonial scholarship offers us a powerful lens by taking seriously how colonialism carved deep-seated, collective memories and traumas that are then shaped even after formal colonialism ends. (5/n)
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James Lin
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In the Taiwan case, we have a unique circumstance where the KMT regime that followed the Japanese was a colonial regime. I've written about that here, as have scholars like Steven Phillips, Wu Rwei-ren, Evan Dawley, etc.: https://twitter.com/jamestwotree/status/1216362436783005696… (6/n)
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James Lin
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A more serious thread on decolonization, authoritarianism, and the zombie of the Republic of China that just won't die 1/ twitter.com/jamestwotree/s…
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James Lin
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Under KMT rule, Taiwanese families suffered immensely. Chen Yi's corrupt and inept governorship culminated in widespread protests that were violently cracked down upon during the infamous February 28th massacres. This set the tone for KMT rule afterward. (7/n)