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12020-01-06T17:13:37-05:00Evan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44352This page briefly discusses the source materials of the module, both at a foundational level and in terms of some of the documents that appear in its pages.plain2020-01-06T17:25:37-05:00Evan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44The principal source for the content of this entire module is the author's monograph, Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s-1950s (Harvard Asia Center Press, 2019), primarily from Chapter 4 of that book. I reproduce material from that publication, usually in a heavily modified form, in the pages herein. The original work is based upon a wide array of materials, including the archives of the Taiwan Government General; local and Taiwan-wide newspapers; temple inscriptions; biographical materials; and historical journals. I have included short translations from many of these materials throughout the module and in most of these instances I have also included images of the original materials, with relevant sections highlighted. Many of the primary sources contain the author's own marginalia, and so they reveal segments of the research process: the locating of of relevant articles in the voluminous pages of colonial newspapers, and the translation of words at an early stage of research when they were new to the author. I decided to present these fragments of my own scholarly past in order to highlight the labor of academic production.