Colonial Project, National Game(English, Hardcover, Morris Andrew D.)

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Colonial Project, National Game(English, Hardcover, Morris Andrew D.) is written by Morris Andrew D. and published by University of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520262794 (ISBN 10) and 9780520262799 (ISBN 13).

In this engrossing cultural history of baseball in Taiwan, Andrew D. Morris traces the game's social, ethnic, political, and cultural significance since its introduction on the island more than one hundred years ago. Introduced by the Japanese colonial government at the turn of the century, baseball was expected to 'civilize' and modernize Taiwan's Han Chinese and Austronesian Aborigine populations. After World War II, the game was tolerated as a remnant of Japanese culture and then strategically employed by the ruling Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), even as it was also enthroned by Taiwanese politicians, cultural producers, and citizens as their national game. In considering baseball's cultural and historical implications, Morris deftly addresses a number of societal themes crucial to understanding modern Taiwan, the question of Chinese 'reunification', and East Asia as a whole.