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State Building Amid Resistance: Administrative Intermediaries and the Making of Colonial Taiwan
Ist Teil von
Polity, 2019-04, Vol.51 (2), p.231-260
Ort / Verlag
Basingstoke: The University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2019
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Taiwan under Japanese rule (1895–1945) is among the most successful examples of state building in the modern era. It is also a case where success was unlikely: Taiwan was an ethnically divided and violent frontier region of the Qing empire, where heavily armed communities had resisted attempts by rulers to exert control over their affairs for centuries. Unable to obtain the willing cooperation of community leaders in substantiating government authority within the locality, Japanese officials nevertheless succeeded at state building by transforming traditional institutions of state-society mediation into disciplinary instruments, thereby compelling community leaders to act against their own interests and aid in the realization of Japan’s modernist reforms. The case of colonial Taiwan has broad implications. It demonstrates what it actually would take to succeed at state building within the contexts and conditions commonly found in today’s ungoverned and undergoverned spaces, and it problematizes the prevailing notion that state building by imposition is compatible with liberalizing and democratizing reforms.