Bodies and Structures

Cai's Taiwan

Cai's description of Taiwan as a unique place by virtue of its unique history of Chinese migration served his argument for ending Taiwan's colonial status. Yet it also erased Taiwan's indigenous peoples from ownership of Taiwan as a political place. In so doing, Cai's cultural regionalism replicated rather than challenged the basic settler colonialist logic of the Japanese imperial spatial imaginary.

Follow this sub-pathway to explore how Nihon honkokumin ni atau addressed the question of indigenous rights and spatialities, and how this erasure of the indigenous from the Taiwanese "vernacular" has been perpetuated in the postwar era. Or, continue on the main pathway for the conclusion of the "Cai Peihuo's Inner Territory" module.

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