What is it about?
This essay reviews Chung Shu-min's (鍾淑敏) Rizhi shiqi zai Nanyang de Taiwan-ren 日治時期在南洋的臺灣人[Taiwanese in Nanyo during the Japanese Colonial Period]. It also covers main arguments of Sidney Xu Lu, The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868–1961 (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
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Why is it important?
Chung’s monograph is the first monograph that examines the history of Taiwanese migrants during the colonial era. The Taiwanese experience shows a counter example of Japanese colonial migration and settler colonialism. The review essay also comments on the concept of settler colonialism and its limit to understand the Taiwanese migrants to Southeast Asia in the first half of the twentieth century.
Perspectives
Taiwanese migration to Southeast Asia in the age of empire provides an intricate case to examine the interplay between colonialism and migration as well as the question of pan-Asianism and Chinese disaporas.
Dr Huei-Ying Kuo
Johns Hopkins University
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This page is a summary of: Migrants across Empires, Translocal Chinese East Asian Perspectives, April 2022, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/24522015-16010006.
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