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Colonial Project, National Game - A History of Baseball in Taiwan (Hardcover)
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Colonial Project, National Game - A History of Baseball in Taiwan (Hardcover)
Series: Asia Pacific Modern, 6
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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.
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