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學術會議
:2009年7月2~5日
台灣人類學與民族學學會&
SEAA
(Society
for
East Asian Anthropology)聯合大會
Panel:
Shifting Cultural Identities in Postcolonial
Taiwan and Japan
文化認同的位移:台灣/日本之後殖民情境
Organizer:
Chih-Huei Huang, Assistant Researcher, Institute of Ethnology,
Academia Sinica, TAIWAN.
主持人:中央研究院民族學研究所助理研究員
黃智慧
Abstract:
After the end of World War II in 1945, the
Japanese Empire, which lasted for over half a century, collapsed
as a result. The great impact of this collapse on the colonial
formation of society, culture and lifestyle in East Asia has not
been fully assessed. The issues that this panel seeks to
address here involve the shifting of cultural identities arising
from mass migrations in Taiwan and Japan during the postcolonial
period that resulted in the restructuring and transformation of
ethnic groups in these areas. Moreover, we aim to discuss
from a broader perspective and various aspects of intercultural
exchange that were brought about by colonialism, for example, in
regard to fishing technology, dress, tourism, etc.
摘要:
隨著1945年大戰結束,歷經半世紀的大日本帝國體系也宣告崩解。這項崩解行動所帶給東亞舊殖民地區人民在生活、社會、文化方面的鉅大影響,至今尚未能完整評估。本場次所討論的課題環繞在後殖民時代裡,包含台灣與日本,人群大規模移動所導致的文化認同位移現象,以及族群結構的重整與變動,並且以較寬廣的角度探討殖民主義所帶來異文化交流的諸多面向。
發表人/個別子題:
1)Tei
Taikin, Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, Tokyo
Metropolitan University, JAPAN.
“Different Roles in
Postcolonial Japan: Manchuria-born Japanese and Japan-born
Koreans”
日本首都大學東京社會人類學系教授
鄭大均
〈日本「滿洲二世」與「在日二世」在後殖民時代裡的角色差異〉
Abstract:
Approximately 6,600,000
Japanese civilians and soldiers repatriated to their homeland
from various regions of the Japanese Empire after the war.
Reversely 1,400,000 Koreans in Japan returned to their homeland,
and 600,000 remained. Among them, I would like to take up two
groups: Koreans in Japan and the returnees from Manchuria. One
is paid a high attention as a victim of Japanese colonialism,
whereas the other is associated with the involvement with the
Japanese invasion, so people tend to avoid to mention their
backgrounds. However, the cultural and economic scenes of
postwar Japan would be much less exiting without their
activities. You have to exclude Mihune Toshiro, Asaoka Ruriko
and Yamada Yoji from movie scenes and Abe Kobo, Endo Shusaku as
well as Miyao Tomiko from the literature scenes and forget
Shinkansen. The passions, visions and energy they displayed in
postwar Japan was enormous. Without them Japanese sense of self
respect would be more fragile. Compared to this, the role of
Koreans in Japan has been political and is often related to the
Japanese negativity. Now the returnees are passing away and at
the same time, Japanese relations with east Asian countries are
getting more defined by history: Koreans and Chinese as victims
of Japan’s invasions vs. Japan as the perpetrator of the
sufferings of Asia. Is it just a coincidence ?
2)Kazuyuki
Nishimura, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Integrated Arts and
Social Sciences, Japan Women's University, JAPAN.
“The Technical Culture of Harpoon-fishing for Marlin at a
Fishing Port of Postcolonial East Taiwan”
日本女子大學助教授
西村一之
〈技術文化的後殖民情境:以台灣東部漁港標旗魚漁法為例〉
Abstract:
There is a vogue
in post-colonial studies linking Japan’s colonial rule with
post-war Taiwanese society. The point at issue, then, is the
impact of the new technology and knowledge that was employed in
the process of colonial development. This report raises the
question: what was the impact for the life of the Taiwanese
people of the colonial rule introducing novel technology? To
throw light on the issue we shall consider the fishery
technology developed during the colonial period and used
thereafter in a port town in eastern Taiwan.
Three Japanese fishery immigration villages were established in
eastern Taiwan during the colonial period. In those days, one of
the fishing methods transported by Japanese fishermen into
Taiwan was harpoon for marlin. This fishing method was in the C
town transmitted to the Taiwanese and the indigenous people (the
‘Amis). In the years from the 1950s to the mid-1980s, the C
town, as representative of harpoon-fishing, grew rapidly to
become a famous fishery port town. The fishermen in the C town
now tell story of how Japanese fishing immigrants brought the
fishing technology of harpoon and how this introduction
eventually lent the former a high reputation. On the other hand,
fishery in this town has lost importance as local industry since
the 1990s. However, the development of the tourist industry that
accompanied the decline of fishery has generates demands for
resources. Moreover, the rising interest in the study of local
history has produced the tendency to “utilize history as a
resource”. Meanwhile, harpoon-fishing is now attracting
attention as the traditional and distinctive fishing method of
this area. Harpoon-fishing has changed from a mere fishing
technology to the cultural symbol of this town.
3)Hsuta
Lin, Assistant Professor, Institutes of Ethnic Relations and
Culture, National Dong Hwa University, TAIWAN.
“The Manipulation of
Cultural Identity in Postcolonial Taiwan”
國立東華大學族群關係與文化研究所助理教授
林徐達
〈後殖民台灣的文化身分操作〉
Abstract:
The postcolonialism today furthers
globalization by reshaping identity, for it connects disparate
cultural influences, further “deterritorialize[s] the process of
imagining communities,” and therefore represents “a complex
transnational construction of imaginary landscapes.” This paper
traces this development by analyzing the postcolonial phenomena
of the nostalgic fever in contemporary Taiwan, thereby revealing
the nature of colonialism’s impact on the hybridized cultural
identity of the colonized. In 2002, Taiwan’s travel campaign,
which dedicated to the Japanese tourists, was launched with the
slogan “Come to Taiwan and Learn the Japanese [Tradition]” –
quite an ironic choice given Taiwan’s traditional historical and
cultural associations. The practice of postcolonial tourism
hence becomes a confrontation of Taiwan’s colonial experiences
and serves as a nostalgic imagination for the Japanese tourists
for the vanishing plurality of their own past. The disturbance
between Taiwan’s present cultural identification and its past
historical experiences is once again represented in 2007 “Long
Stay” tourist campaign for the Japanese visitors, which revealed
the imagined past is no longer the place one’s memory refers to,
but “a synchronic warehouse of cultural scenarios.” As a result,
the important task for Taiwan’s cultural identity is not merely
to deal with the tension caused by the hybridized culture, but
to understand the meaning of the disguise and transfiguration of
the hybridized culture. Drawing on the nostalgic imagination and
the manipulation of cultural identity, this paper demonstrates
how the concept of “cultural involution” was appropriated with
which the cross-regional interactivities were absorbed into
local cultural and economic reproduction.
4)Ming-Tsung
Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The National
Taiwan University, TAIWAN.
“Sojourn Experience and Identity Formation: A Comparative
Ethnographic Study of the Taiwanese-in-Tokyo and the
Japanese-in-Taipei”
國立台灣大學社會學系助理教授
李明璁
〈旅居經驗與認同型構:台灣人在東京,與日本人在台北的比較民族誌研究〉
Abstract:
The status of sojourners
is ambiguous, lying somewhere between short-term tourists and
permanent migrants. There is a nomadic and blurred identity.
They are partly like common tourists who travel ‘light’ around
the surface of the foreign metropolis, and partly like ordinary
emigrants who live a bit ‘heavy’ on the margins of the alien
city. Through a cross-culturally comparative ethnography, this
project will discuss how the sojourners exhibit a sophisticated,
though perhaps unintentional, strategy, choosing their cultural
orientation and self-identification, and shifting between
alternative versions thereof. Accordingly, the project will
reveal details of the daily life of two groups of people:
Taiwanese sojourners in Tokyo and the Japanese in Taipei,
exploring their cultural practice and the flowing identity
arising from their ambivalent status – neither/both tourists
nor/and residents. I will show the various ways in which the
imaging of the ‘highly-modernized Japan’ (for the Taiwanese) and
the ‘exotic Taiwan’ (for the Japanese) meet the actual
sojourning experience of Tokyo and Taipei respectively, as well
as how the actual encounters discourage, confirm, or strengthen
the two groups of people’s sense of identification with the
Other and themselves. Finally, I will discuss how such
“looking-glass” experiences between Taiwanese and Japanese
sojourners articulate with the complicated historical
understanding and future imagination in the postcolonial era.
5)Chih-Huei
Huang. Assistant Researcher, Institute of Ethnology, Academia
Sinica, TAIWAN.
“The Postcolonial Condition of Taiwan: Complex System under Two
Layered Colonization after 1987”
中央研究院民族學研究所助理研究員
黃智慧
〈台灣的後殖民情境:雙層後殖民所構成的複雜系統現象〉
Abstract:
After the end of Japanese colonial rule in 1945, Taiwan’s
society should have entered the historical phase of
de-colonization. However, the reality was different. Native
Taiwanese (ethnic Hoklo, Hakka and Taiwan aboriginals), that is,
the previously colonized inhabitants began to seriously take
stock of the historical legacy of Japanese colonial rule, and
this reflective evaluation appeared in a significant way only
after 1987. 1987 was a pivotal moment, which marked the end of
the KMT’s martial law some 40 years after the end of World War
II. The following year, one of the previously colonized, Lee
Deng-hui became the first native Taiwanese to become President.
In the years that ensued to the present, native Taiwanese
attitudes toward Japan consciously incorporated another
political colonizer—the KMT regime dominated by ethnic
Mainlanders, and the addition of this layer produced the
perception of an ambivalent and complicated postcolonial
condition. Due to the different historical experiences that
native Taiwanese encountered in these two kinds of alien
colonial rule, which involved the relationship to both the war
and colonization, as well as the drastic evolution of the modern
political system of China and Japan in the last century,
Taiwan’s post-colonial condition in turn began to manifest
ramifications from these drastic transformations and multiethnic
interactions, as the accumulated influence of these conflicts at
many levels produced complex systemic entanglements.
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