Abstract
With the establishment of Manchukuo in 1932, Manchuria turned into Taiwan’s most important area to trade with in Chinese mainland. Taiwanese entrepreneurs from countryside and urban areas of Taiwan joined this “international” trade mostly opened by the Japanese merchants and the Japanese government. The reinforcement of the Taiwan-Manchukuo trade was made at the cost of the Manchukuo-Inland China trade. When the overseas Chinese in the Southeast Asia decreased their purchase of Taiwanese products which had been categorized as “Japanese” products because of Japanese invasion against China, the Taiwanese exclaimed that the imperial army in Manchukuo and North China had saved their economy. This historical account discloses that the Taiwanese and mainlanders who had to live together in the postwar Taiwan had actually been opposing with each other during the Sino-Japanese War. It explains to some extent the two ethnic groups’ much congruent memory of Japan in the post-1945 Taiwan.
Highlights
With the establishment of Manchukuo in 1932, Manchuria turned into Taiwan’s most important area to trade with in Chinese mainland
Taiwanese entrepreneurs from countryside and urban areas of Taiwan joined this “international” trade mostly opened by the Japanese merchants and the Japanese government
When the overseas Chinese in the Southeast Asia decreased their purchase of Taiwanese products which had been categorized as “Japanese” products because of Japanese invasion against China, the Taiwanese exclaimed that the imperial army in Manchukuo and North China had saved their economy
Summary
“918,” the date for the Manchuria Incident, and “77,” the date for the Marco Bridge Incident, had been crucial historical dates for early postwar Taiwan to remember for the Japanese invasion upon China It is not until this study about the trade between Taiwan and Manchukuo that it is realized by this author that Taiwanese had joined the Japanese during the Sino-Japanese War to call these 2 dates crucial advance for the “Holy War.”. The old historiography has already taught people about the change into Japanese surname and speaking only Japanese in the kominka movement of Taiwan in the Sino-Japanese War period This depiction had not disclosed that the Taiwanese and mainlanders had been opposing with each other during the Sino-Japanese War. This paper is a sequel to my paper “Qiaoxiang Ties versus Japanese Maritime Power: Trade between Taiwan and Manchuria, ca. The impact will be elaborated around the reinforcement of Taiwanese transnational trade experience and the identity problems between the Taiwanese and the mainlanders
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