Research Article
1. The
Japanese Views of the 1911 Revolution of China: The Controversies between the
Concepts of “Looting a Burning House” and “Lending a Helping Hand”
Tzu-Chin
Huang, Research Fellow, Institute of
Modern History, Academia Sinica
2. The
Crucial Year 1991: On the Birth of“the Republic of China on Taiwan”
Yi-Shen
Chen. Associate research fellow,
Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
3. The
Taiwan Cultural Association and The Taiwan Min Bao Shaped Public Domain: Base
on Cultural Lectures During 1923-1926
Wan-Ping
Lai, Master, Department of History,
National Chung Hsing University
4. Celibacy:
A “Leprosy” of French Society in the Nineteenth Century
Yueh-Yuan
Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of
History, National Chung Hsing University
5. Discussion
on Commentary Forms and Their Meanings in Lijizhengyi;
the Literary Thinking and Creation Practice through Early Medieval Age
Chih-Hsin
Chen, Associate Professor, Department of
Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University
6. Reflexive
Operation: Observation on the Genesis of Indigenous Social Theory
Yu-Cheng
Liu, Assistant Master, Residential
College of International Development, National Chengchi University, Adjunct
Assistant Professor, Center for General Education, National Chiao Tung
University
Research Article
The Japanese Views of the 1911 Revolution of China:
The Controversies between the Concepts of “Looting a Burning House” and
“Lending a Helping Hand”
Tzu-Chin
Huang
Research
Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
Different appraisals and corresponding attitudes coexist, based on
different cognitions and positions, toward the 1911 Revolution of China in the
Japanese society. The Japanese government believes during the time that denying
the divine-right theory of kingship would be bound to jeopardize the survival
of the Japanese royal family, as well as the order in Korea under Japanese
ruling. Thus, three principles listed below have formed the basic stance of the
Japanese government during the outbreak of the Revolution: (1) oppose the
revolution; (2) induce the Qing government to implement constitutional reform;
(3) expand the Japanese rights and interests in China.
On the other hand, in the Japanese society, in addition to a small
portion of its people in favor of the government policies, most of them held
the attitude of sympathy toward the Chinese Revolution. Activities in support
of the revolution, which varied from person to person, include the
participation of training of the new Chinese army, thinking of the new army as
among one of them, or even participating in the Revolution personally in order
to protect the new Chinese army joining the Revolution from destruction. In
addition, some socialist followers also had resonance with the Chinese
revolutionary ideals and thus actively supported the Revolution.
Keywords:
the 1911 Revolution of China, Sino-Japanese Relations, Chinese Revolution
The Crucial Year 1991: On the Birth of“the Republic of China on Taiwan”
Yi-Shen
Chen
Associate
research fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
The ending of the mobilization to repel rebellions and the beginning
of full-scale re-election of the National Assembly members in 1991 was not only
the crucial “first year” for internal democratization in Taiwan, but also the
initiation of “one divided into two” constitutionally legitimate regimes on the
two sides of the Taiwan Strait, as well as the first preparation in the
transformation of the Democratic Progressive Party (the DPP) from its
originally embraced position of Taiwan Independence. President Lee Teng-hui he
himself during his term of presidency had already publicly used the phrase “The
Republic of China on Taiwan”, and in so doing he had managed to change a
proposition into a specific terminology-namely, a concept, in an attempt to
solve the incompatibility between the name of the nation and its territory,
with the resulting effect that has raised the two-pronged query whether this
has either “dissolved” or “realized” the issue of Taiwan Independence.
The first thing that has to be ascertained here concerns the
following: (1) what happened inside the most important political forces in
Taiwan including the KMT and the DDP? (2) how to redefine the triangular
relationships among the U.S.A., mainland China and Taiwan (the ROC)? The
answers to these questions are indeed the pre-conditions for responding to the
major issue raised here in Taiwan’s political history.
Keywords:
"the Republic of China on Taiwan" ,Taiwan independence platform, the
Guidelines for National Unification, pragmatic diplomacy, Lee Teng-hui
The Taiwan Cultural Association and The Taiwan Min Bao Shaped Public Domain: Base
on Cultural Lectures During 1923-1926
Wan-Ping
Lai
Master,
Department of History, National Chung Hsing University
Based on the same idea, the Taiwan Cultural Association and the
Taiwan Min Bao got together during the period of Japanese rule and expanded the
activities of cultural lectures to have more popular support for the
anti-Japanese movement.
The argument of this paper is that the cultural lectures, on the one
hand, expanded the opportunity to participate in the anti-Japanese movement for
ordinary people which is leaded by intellectuals, and created the spaces to
reflect the direction of the movement for intellectuals who leaded the
anti-Japanese movement , on the other hand.
It is a process of formation and development of public sphere. The
two key elements are the cultural lectures and print media. They together
shaped a public forum for civil right and national self-determination. Because
of the common benefit, people joined the forum aggressively. Therefore, there
were lots of cultural lectures during 1925-1926, but the Tongxiao lecture event
make the intellectual reconsidered the strategy of anti-Japanese movement.
Keywords:
Taiwan Cultural Association, Taiwan Min
Bao, cultural lecture, cultural movement
Celibacy: A “Leprosy” of French Society in the
Nineteenth Century
Yueh-Yuan
Chen
Assistant
Professor, Department of History, National Chung Hsing University
In studies of French public health in the nineteenth century,
celibacy was referred to as a public nuisance to society. It was even regarded
as leprosy, and celibates were supposed to be treated and segregated as the
leprosy patients. This article aims to provide a historic context that helps to
understand formation of scientific knowledge concerning celibacy. It focuses on
the concept of body constructed by the science of public health in the
nineteenth century, and describes the model and process of that construction.
This article attempts to grasp when the celibacy problem appears in a novel
model, what specific properties this novel model possesses, and how celibacy is
related to other issues: the depopulation problem, high crime rate problem,
national degeneration problem, and so on.
Keywords:
celibacy, public health, degeneration, body
Discussion on Commentary Forms and Their Meanings in Lijizhengyi; the Literary Thinking and
Creation Practice through Early Medieval Age
Chih-Hsin
Chen
Associate
Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University
The purpose of this essay is to represent scenarios of the
Jing-commentary banquets through Early Medieval Age (from Weijin Period to
Early Tang Dynasty). By examining the commentary forms in Lijizhengyi, we see
that the notes, titles, chapters, and sentences, arranged in sequence, are
actually the representation of such scenarios. Though they are composed in
advance, we can figure out from these vivid scenes the ways how the scholars
speak, listen, inquire and respond to each other. The images also lead them to
share their understanding for the essence of the long-inherited etiquette
together with other ancient and contemporary Liji devotees. We get the ideas
that the practice of these forms are the ways how the contemporary Confucians
carry out their beliefs in everlasting cultural linage. The determination to
make culture incessant also echoes to the literary field. In brief, by
inspecting Lijizhengyi, we can see the burning will from Weijin to make culture
enduring. Maybe it is the undying will that causes scholars or writers to cast
their devotion to various symbol activities.
Keywords:
Jing-commentary banquet, Lijizhengyi,
cultural linage, Early-Tang Jingxue, Weijin Liuchao Literature (Early Medieval
Chinese Literature)
Reflexive Operation: Observation on the Genesis of
Indigenous Social Theory
Yu-Cheng
Liu
Assistant
Master, Residential College of International Development, National Chengchi
University
Adjunct
Assistant Professor, Center for General Education, National Chiao Tung
University
This article investigates the emergence of social theory indigenized
in Taiwan. Roughly, the argument base itself on two foundations: A micro
foundation of social theory presented by ethnomethodology on the one hand and a
macro one of social systems theory on the other. It will be argued that
philosophical decisions made on the indigenization of social theory to
interpret the social phenomena of a specific society will result in different
sociological implications. This will be demonstrated by re-examining the notion
of reflectivity adopted by Harold Garfinkel and Niklas Luhmann. The analysis of
their thoughts will be settled in the context of the long-lasting debates about
the emergence of indigenized social theory in Taiwan. Following this, it will
suggest that both theoretical approaches develop respectively the concept of
reflexivity that renders self-production and self-observation of the
indigenization of social theory possible. It will be demonstrated further by
the examples adopted from certain classical Chinese literatures for the purpose
that it could contribute to our understanding of the genesis of indigenous
social theory in Taiwan.
Keywords:
reflexivity, social systems theory, indigenization, ethnomethodology, reality
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