廈門黑幫籍民的形成與發展(1895-1937)－由“臺匪”到“武力派”

Abstract

This article looks at how Taiwanese gang organization formed in Amoy during the Japanese occupation period in Taiwan, and tries to understand the relationship between it and Japanese policies concerning China. Taiwanese gangs were originally despised as ”Taiwan banditry” by the Chinese, and were thought to be harmful to the social order. Both the Chinese and the Japanese governments wanted to extinguish them. But the birth of the anti-Japanese movement endangered the bread-and-butter of the Japanese in China. Therefore, the Japanese Consul started to manipulate Taiwanese gangs to resist the movement, a method that proved to be very effective. From then on, the Japanese government changed its attitude towards Taiwanese gangs, and the nickname by which it referred to them. It now called them ”armed groups,” a name that implied that the Japanese government affirmed their existence. With Japanese support, Taiwanese gang organization grasped an opportunity to develop, but in the meantime it was gradually manipulated by the Japanese to become part of the operating mechanism of Japan's continental policy.