Colonial Project, National Game Colonial Project, National Game
Asia Pacific Modern

Colonial Project, National Game

A History of Baseball in Taiwan

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Publisher Description

In this engrossing cultural history of baseball in Taiwan, Andrew D. Morris traces the game’s social, ethnic, political, and cultural significance since its introduction on the island more than one hundred years ago. Introduced by the Japanese colonial government at the turn of the century, baseball was expected to "civilize" and modernize Taiwan’s Han Chinese and Austronesian Aborigine populations. After World War II, the game was tolerated as a remnant of Japanese culture and then strategically employed by the ruling Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Even as it was also enthroned by Taiwanese politicians, cultural producers, and citizens as their national game. In considering baseball’s cultural and historical implications, Morris deftly addresses a number of societal themes crucial to understanding modern Taiwan, the question of Chinese "reunification," and East Asia as a whole.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2010
November 24
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
290
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of California Press
SELLER
University of California Press
SIZE
19.7
MB
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