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The Musha Incident - A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan (Hardcover)
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The Musha Incident - A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan (Hardcover)
Series: Global Chinese Culture
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On October 27, 1930, members of six Taiwanese indigenous groups
ambushed the Japanese attendees of an athletic competition at the
Musha Elementary School, killing 134. The uprising came as a shock
to Japanese colonial authorities, whose response was swift and
brutal. Heavy artillery and battalions of troops assaulted the
region, spraying a wide area with banned poison gas. The Seediq
from Mhebu, who led the uprising, were brought to the brink of
genocide. Over the ensuing decades, the Musha Incident became seen
as a central moment in Taiwan's colonial history, and different
political regimes and movements have seized on it for various
purposes. Under the Japanese, it was used to attest to the
"barbarity" of Taiwan's indigenous tribes; the Nationalist regime
cited the uprising as proof of the Taiwanese peoples' heroism and
solidarity with the Chinese in resisting the Japanese; and
pro-independence groups in Taiwan have portrayed the Seediq people
and their history as exemplars of Taiwan's "authentic" cultural
traditions, which stand apart from that of mainland China. This
book brings together leading scholars to provide new perspectives
on one of the most traumatic episodes in Taiwan's modern history
and its fraught legacies. Contributors from a variety of
disciplines revisit the Musha Incident and its afterlife in
history, literature, film, art, and popular culture. They unravel
the complexities surrounding it by confronting a history of
exploitation, contradictions, and misunderstandings. The book also
features conversations with influential cultural figures in Taiwan
who have attempted to tell the story of the uprising.
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