Taiwan: Governance, Rebellion, and Baseball

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CLASS SCHEDULE
Introduction
Discourses of history
Elections
Austronesian
Elections
Early Colonialism
Qing Society
Japanese Takeover
Baseball
2-28
Little China
Democratization
Environment
Museums
Religion
Family and Marriage
Local and National
National and Global

ANTHROPOLOGY 469A/JSIS 484F

TAIWAN: CULTURE, SOCIETY, HISTORY

TOPICS AND READINGS FOR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5

TOPICS
We will do something different in class today; please watch the first disk of Kano by Umin Boya (黃志翔）on reserve at the Media Arcade on the third floor of Allen Library. We will watch the second disk in class, and talk about the "civilizing" effects of Japan in Taiwan society.

READINGS

Katz, Paul R. 2005. Governmentality and Its Consequences in Colonial Taiwan: A Case Study of the Ta-pa-ni Incident of 1915. Journal of Asian Studies 64 (2): 387-424
Andrew D. Morris. 2010. Chapter 2, Making Racial Harmony in Taiwan Baseball, 1931-1945, in Colonial Project, National Game (Berkeley: University of California Press), pp. 30-53
Peng Ming-min 彭明敏. 1972. Chapter 1, My Formosan Heritage, from A Taste of Freedom (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston), pp. 1-29.

ASSIGNMENT
By 8:00 a.m on Friday, February 5, please post 200-400 words on why many Taiwanese consider baseball to be "the national game," given that it was introduced by Japanese colonialists who themselves adopted it from America.