The Slippage between Empires: the production of the colonized subject in Taiwan (1920-1945)

Taiwan makes an interesting case in postcolonial studies not only because of its multilayered colonial trajectory but also because of the intricate relationship between the colonial powers. After Japan’s surrender in 1945, Taiwan fell into another “colonial” power – the nationalist party’s rule, which is considered the “re-colonial” period by many scholars. Although the lifting of martial law in 1987 ushered in the so-called “postcolonial period”, the legitimacy of Hoklo-centric Taiwanese cultural nationalism was challenged by aboriginal movements in ...postprin