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Portraits from Formosa : = Visual Documents and Taiwan's Colonial History (1895--1960).

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Portraits from Formosa :/
Reminder of title:	Visual Documents and Taiwan's Colonial History (1895--1960).
Author:	Ma, Kuo An.
Description:	1 online resource (266 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-08A(E).
Subject:	Asian studies. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355820577

Portraits from Formosa : = Visual Documents and Taiwan's Colonial History (1895--1960).
Ma, Kuo An.

Portraits from Formosa :Visual Documents and Taiwan's Colonial History (1895--1960). - 1 online resource (266 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation analyzes the formation of the culture for visual documentation in early twentieth century Taiwan (also known as "Formosa" since the 17th century), the island that witnessed the longest period of colonial rule by Japanese colonial government (1895--1945). In half a century, the Japanese government managed to compile one of the largest body of colonial archives in East Asia, setting new standards for the conceptual relations between "documentation" and visual---mainly photographic---production. The same period was also the time when all the residents---Japanese, settled Chinese migrants, even indigenous islanders---on the island began to see photography took the place of portraiture, and acquired more varied functions and symbolic values in different cultural and social spheres. Contextualizing the ways in which "visual document" was constructed and utilized not only by the "colonial archive," but also in everyday life, this dissertation focuses on historicizing images as both products and witnesses of emerging/transforming local cultural communities. First, to define "visual document," this dissertation examines news photos, picture postcards, visual data collected from ethnologic/ethnographic studies, and more tellingly, the images that are simultaneously "all of the above." By juxtaposing this world of "visual documentation" with the practice of photography-making in local societies, this research offers new perspective for reviewing how ideas for "visual medium" evolved in these communities with changing conception for culture and tradition; namely, the introduction of "modernity." In the end, with analyses of how "visual documentation"---serving as a foundation for the concept of "scientific documentation" in popular media published in the decades between 1940 and 1960, I argue that the formation of "documentary" culture characterized the emerging individual as well as collective subjectivities for both the colonized and colonizer during and beyond the colonial period.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355820577Subjects--Topical Terms:

1179577
Asian studies.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Portraits from Formosa : = Visual Documents and Taiwan's Colonial History (1895--1960).
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