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Date 2021-02-20

Title

Healthy Land and Ideal Custom: Custom Discourses on Taiwan and Manchuria in Japanese Colonial Period

Author

Tsai, Pei-Chun

Project Assistant Professor, Literacy Center for Creative Writing and Course Development, Providence University

Abstract

Through the analysis of and comparison between the hygiene discourses and travel guides on Japanese colonies, this paper attempts to point out how the foreign images of Taiwan/Manchuria are produced and disseminated and how political policies change Japan’s custom domestication and foreign hygiene discourses. Second, I will also analyze the travel guides on Taiwan and Manchuria officially published by Japan in order to figure out the connection between custom discourses and colonial governance. I try to point out how travel guides introduce, categorize, and position the ecology and humanistic resources of different regions in temperate and tropical zones through different issues and narrative modes and how the introduction of local custom becomes the promotion highlight for foreign tourism. In terms of the analysis and comparison, I will further understand how Taiwan and Manchuria are seen, known, and narrated.

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