The Transition of the Left Discourse During Japanese Colonial Period of Taiwan: the Case Study of Taiwan People Times and New Taiwan People Times
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Hu, Chin-Ya
Abstract
Taiwan People Times(1928) and New Taiwan People Times(1930-1931) are important presses published by the Left groups of Taiwan during Japanese colonial time. “Class struggle” as a main ideology formed in the discourse of Taiwan People Times and New Taiwan People Times has its meaning switch progressionally with the change of agent-coalition and the social context. This paper employs the concepts of discourse analysis and political economic theories to exam the formulation and transition of the Left discourse during 1928 to 1931. he interest of the paper includes: (1) In terms of social context, how does “class stratification” of Taiwan form under Japanese colonial economic policy on Taiwan sugar industry? (2) In terms of agent-coalition, how do the Left groups form their alliance and develop their social movement strategies? (3) How do (1) and (2) influence the Left discourse on Taiwan People Times and New Taiwan People Times and furthermore result in its transition?he major finding is: In Taiwan People Times, the ideology of “class struggle” does not refer to “overthrowing Japanese colonization” as it advocates the legitimation and politicization of the Left movement. However, the Left discourse turns to criticize the idea of legitimation, claiming that the Left movement should be led by the groups of labors and peasants since the left movement itself should be a “class revolution”. Factors that result in such a transition include: (1) In terms of social context, the Great Depression happened in 1929 resulted in the rising of the Left revolution atmosphere. Also, the situation of exploitation within Taiwan sugar industry got worse. (2) In terms of agent coalition, Taiwan Peasant Groups started to write discourse on New Taiwan People Times. Meanwhile, the policy of Taiwan Communist Party changed from “organizing the capitalist class and forming an alliance with them” to “criticizing the cooperation with the capitalist class and aiming for the revolution led by the labors and peasants.”
Subjects
Japanese colonial time
discourse analysis
Taiwan Communist Party
Taiwan People Times,
New Taiwan People Times
class struggle
social context
the Left ideology
Taiwan Identity
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