英文摘要 |
This article analyzes a series of official Fujian surveys and educational investigations on Taiwan during the period from 1911 to 1933, highlighting several important issues in the interactions between Fujian and Taiwan. First, this article critiques current scholarship that has ignored relevant surveys and investigations and their contexts, which included Taiwan's southern expansion policy, Fujian's administrative modernization, and the intermediary role of Taiwanese (gentry-merchants). Second, using a new research framework, this article revisits such well-known surveys and investigations as those of Shi Jingzhen (1911), Cheng Jiayu (1915), the teachers' and students of Fujian Provincial Agricultural School (1915), Wang Yang and Zhang Zunxu (1916), and other neglected surveys and investigations. This article emphasizes that Fujian's official Taiwan surveys and investigation activities were not only initiated by Fujian provincial officials. Taiwan's Southern Expansion policy and Taiwanese in Fuzhou and Xiamen also played important roles in these activities. This article also clarifies the relationship between the Fujian provincial government and Japanese colonial government of Taiwan in these investigation activities. |