ISSN:
0095-6848
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
The journal of Japanese studies
Publ. der Quelle:
Seattle, Wash : Soc
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 43, No. 1 (2017), p. 31-64
DDC:
390
Abstract:
In 1895, as soon as the Japanese arrived in Taiwan, their looser mores in terms of public nudity threatened to discredit Japan's "civilizing" mission in the colony. By domesticating the bare body of the colonizing Japanese through regulations, the Government-General sought to maintain its authority under the gaze of its colonized subjects. This article investigates the complexity of the Japanese identity in the colonial encounter by examining the process of the self-domestication of the body of the colonizer and revealing its connections to previous Japanese bodily experiences during the early Meiji period. [web URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/article/646940]
Note:
Copyright: © COPYRIGHT 2017 Society for Japanese Studies
DOI:
10.1353/jjs.2017.0003
URL:
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1865201209