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ANTHROPOLOGY 469A/JSIS 484F

TAIWAN: CULTURE, SOCIETY, HISTORY

TOPICS AND READINGS FOR FRIDAY, JANUARY 29

TOPICS
Chinese immigrant society underwent many changes between the Zheng conquest in 1662 and the Japanese conquest in 1895, but for most of the period, the Qing had only a tenuous hold on the island. We look at what society was like during this period, and then examine the big changes that went on between the culmination of ethnic strife in the 1850s and Liu Mingchuan's modernizing governorship of the newly created province in the 1880s.

READINGS
  • Harry J. Lamley. 1981 Subethnic Rivalry in the Ch'ing Period, in Emily Martin Ahern and Hill Gates, eds., The Anthropology of Taiwanese Society (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1981), pp. 282-318. Lamley shows clearly how light state control was, and how important local social structure, during much of the Qing period
  • Chu, Samuel C. 1963. Liu Ming-ch'uan and the Modernization of Taiwan. Journal of Asian Studies 23 (1): 37-53. Liu (劉銘傳）is the City God (城隍）of Taipei. This will tell you why.
  • Chapters XIV through XVII (About local missions) from George Leslie MacKay, From Far Formosa, pp. 135-171. Taipei's most famous private hospital is named after MacKay, a Canadian missionary doctor. You will understand why.
ASSIGNMENT
For the last two classes, we have said a lot about the role of "great men" in history, and we will be examining two other major figures closely later on, Chiang Ching-kuo (將經國) and Lee Teng-hui (李登輝)。By 8:00 a.m on Friday, January 29, please post 200-400 words on questions of whether you think we are placing too much importance on the role of individuals, and of what we might be leaving out or selling short by doing so. This post may be in either English or Chinese.