2,600,000 Yen
(Direct Cost: 2,000,000 Yen Indirect Cost: 600,000 Yen)
Research Abstract
The purpose of this research project was to examine American and Chinese occupation policies in postwar Japan and Taiwan, focusing on the process and outcome of dismantling Japanese colonialism. During the first two years, I conducted archival research on Nationalist Chinese policies towards Taiwan after 1945, collecting official sources on new forms of personal identity documents. Based on these historical documents, I presented my research findings on the politics of postcolonial identification at an international symposium. As I continued to translate and analyze these Chinese sources, including individual petitions, I decided to focus on the recovery of Chinese names for Taiwanese who had adopted Japanese names before 1945. I gave an online presentation on this name-recovery campaign, which serves as a window to understanding decolonization and postcolonialism in Taiwan.
