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Article: Leo T. S. Ching. Becoming "Japanese": Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation.(Book Review)
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- China Review International
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- March 22, 2003
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xii, 251 pp. Hardcover $48.0, ISBN 0520-22551-1. Paperback $18.95, ISBN 0520-22553-8.
Contrary to the marketing label ("Literature/Asian Studies/History") adopted by University of California Press for this book, Leo Ching's Becoming "Japanese" is neither a (literary) history of colonial Taiwan nor an exemplar of Asian studies scholarship. It is an extended mediation on the topic of identity formation in a colonial setting by a scholar partial to the analytical strategies of cultural studies and conversant with postcolonial theory, broadly conceived. In actuality, this monograph is two books in one. On the one hand, ...