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Wilson, Roderick Ike Chow, Kai-Wing Shao, Dan 2022-08 application/pdf en text Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01 The student, Yuwei Jiang, accepted the attached license on 2022-07-15 at 17:35. The student, Yuwei Jiang, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2022-07-15 at 17:55. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2022-07-19 at 09:22. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #18349 on 2022-11-15 at 21:40:32 Contested colonial modernity: the controversy and political struggles surrounding the Kanan Taishū irrigation system, 1922-1937 Jiang, Yuwei 2022-07-19 Colonial Taiwan Kanan Taishū Irrigation Modernity This Master’s thesis, drawing on Japanese and Chinese news articles, travelogues, and pamphlets authored by activists on different ends of the Taiwanese political spectrum, examines the controversies and debates around the construction of the Kanan Taishū irrigation system as initiated by the Japanese colonial government in the 1920s and 30s. By looking at how Japanese colonizers and Taiwanese local elites each viewed and experienced the visions of modernity as embodied by the construction project differently, I argue that while the majority of Taiwanese local elites had criticized the project and the state’s colonial policies, they nevertheless tended to endorse on the discursive level Japanese visions of modernity as characterized by economic, scientific, and hygienic advances, with a small minority of Marxist and anarchist elite groups embracing alternative visions of colonial modernity in pursuit of distinctive political and economic agendas of their own. Studying this complex entanglement of discursive struggle is crucial to not only our discussion of Taiwanese politics from the colonial period through to the present day, but an understanding of how visions of colonial modernity was negotiated and contested in areas peripheral to the heart of the Japanese empire as well. Thesis eng https://hdl.handle.net/2142/116114 Copyright 2022 Yuwei Jiang M.A. Thesis E Asian Languages & Cultures University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign E. Asian Languages & Cultures