近代心智與台灣社會: 黃繼圖研究 (1912-1960)

Abstract

The author has completed the 2012-2013 NSC Monograph-writing Project, based\r\non the author’s previous four-year NSC projects (2007-2011), over the past year, and\r\nfurther formally published it by the Taipei-based Daoxiang Publishing House in\r\nMarch, 2013. The title of the monograph is Modern Mindset and Daily Taiwan: an\r\nExamination of Private and Public Aspects of Lawyer Huang Jitu’s Diary\r\n(1912-1955).\r\nThe motivation of the monograph is an attempt to suggest an alternative approach\r\nto an increasing literature on researches into modernity-related issues in Taiwan,\r\nmainly by integrating conceptual inspirations based on the nature of diary as both a\r\nform of historical source and a genre of literature, and partly by reinterpreting core\r\nideas of the history of mentalities.\r\nOn the basis of an examination of the diary manuscripts of an individual, Huang\r\n\r\nJitu, this monograph foregrounds three main questions: firstly, through a private\r\napproach based on diary entries, in general, what are its significances and\r\nparticularities that could be revealed when scholars examine modernity-related issues?\r\nIn Taiwan historical context, when and how did (colonial) modernity arrive in Taiwan?\r\nHow could we describe it, in particular, in the private sphere of Taiwan society, in\r\nboth individual and collective level? How and why did wartime mobilization during\r\nthe Second World War impact on the (colonial) modernity of private sphere in\r\nTaiwan society? How and why was it further reshaped under the party-state system of\r\nthe Nationalist Chinese in early postwar period?\r\nThe first half of the monograph suggested, firstly, both colonial government and\r\nTaiwanese reformist movement had roles in creating “modern mindset” among\r\nTaiwanese youth such as Huang Jitu, and secondly, the private sphere of Huang Jitu,\r\nas an overseas student in Japan, also demonstrated the diversity of modernity that was\r\nreproduced in Taiwan at a later stage.\r\nThe second half of the monograph, the author examine how wartime mobilization\r\nimpacted on the change of boundary between the public and private sphere of Taiwan\r\nsociety, and how it represented in the level of both individual and collective in terms\r\nof the implication of the history of mentalities.\r\nIn the final chapter, the author continues to examine how the newly established\r\nparty-state system of the Nationalist Chinese deeply frustrated the legal modernity\r\nand the political modernity based on the ideas of self-rule and dissident tradition that\r\ninherited from the previous colonial modernity introduced by the Japanese into\r\nTaiwan society.