일제의 국책 다큐멘터리 <남진 타이완南進臺灣> 속에 나타난 타이완 재현과 식민의식

Abstract

The paper analyzes <Southward Expansion to Taiwan>, a documentary produced by the Japanese Governor-General during Taiwan’s colonial rule. How Japanese colonialists record Taiwan’s more than 40 years of colonial history. “Now, here,” we’d like to read what kind of reenactment was being made in the video. In this video, which emphasizes that it was produced by Taiwan’s Governor-General as a state-run documentary, we can now find colonialism and ideology. Japan injected new universal values (e.g. enlightenment and civilization, modernization) into the colonies for the colonial expansion of the empire, and on the basis of this, it sought to gain the legitimacy and rationality of the colonial wars waged in colonial Taiwan. Japanese imperialism constantly reshuffled Taiwan’s colonial consciousness while promoting colonial Taiwan as a new Japanese citizen. Imperialism’s insidious colonial consciousness was replaced by civilization and modernization, concealed and manipulated. The paper believes that <Southward Expansion to Taiwan> is recreating Taiwan, which they imagine or desire, in a way that takes a bird’s-eye view of the entire island from above. However, in the display of Taiwan, the Taiwanese and the indigenous peoples in the video deployed by the Japanese colonialists, colonialism shows signs of division. The division of colonial discourse is illustrated by the imitation of the Taiwanese (native inhabitants) of Japanese colonial consciousness and its slide.