Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls under Japanese Rule (Taiwan and the World)

Hu, Fang Yu

ISBN 10: 0295752645 / ISBN 13: 9780295752648

Edité par University of Washington Press, 2024

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• Titre: Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls under Japanese Rule (Taiwan and the World)
• Éditeur: University of Washington Press
• Date de parution: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0295752645
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780295752648
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: as new

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Synopsis

Traces Japan's efforts to modernize Taiwan through gendered educational practices In Good Wife, Wise Mother, female education and citizenship serve as a lens through which to examine Taiwan’s uniqueness as a colonial crossroads between Chinese and Japanese ideas and practices. A latecomer to the age of imperialism, Japan used modernization efforts in Taiwan to cast itself as a benevolent force among its colonial subjects and imperial competitors. In contrast to most European colonies, where only elites received an education, in Taiwan Japan built elementary schools intended for the entire population, including girls. In 1897 it developed a program known as “Good Wife, Wise Mother” that sought to transform Han Taiwanese girls into modern Japanese female citizens. Drawing on Japanese and Chinese newspapers, textbooks, oral interviews, and fiction, Fang Yu Hu illustrates how this seemingly progressive project advanced a particular Japanese vision of modernity, womanhood, and citizenship, to which the colonized Han Taiwanese people responded with varying degrees of collaboration, resistance, adaptation, and adoption. Hu also assesses the program’s impact on Taiwan’s class structure, male-female interactions, and political identity both during and after the end of Japanese occupation in 1945. Good Wife, Wise Mother expands the study of Taiwanese history by contributing important gendered and nonelite perspectives. It will be of interest to any historian concerned with questions of modernity, hybridity, and colonial nostalgia.

À propos des auteurs

Fang Yu Hu is assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She received her PhD in history from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2015. This is her first book.

James Lin is assistant professor of history at the University of Washington.

William Lavely is professor of sociology at the University of Washington. He is a coeditor of Rural China on the Eve of Revolution: Sichuan Fieldnotes, 1949-1950 by G. William Skinner (University of Washington Press, 2016) andthe author of many articles on demography and the family in contemporary China.

Madeleine Yue Dong is professor of history and chair of China Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories (University of California Press, 2004); editor of Everyday Modernity in China (University of Washington Press, 2006); and coeditor of The Modern Girl Around the World (Duke University Press, 2008).