The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing

竹取物語 = The tale of the bamboo cutter

(2001). Becoming “Japanese”: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 36-36.

Becoming “Japanese”: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation

Voices from the Periphery--Love Songs in Ryojin Hisho

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The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895–1910

Matthew Fraleigh examines how "men of high purpose" ( shishi ), a group of mid-nineteenth-century samurai who embraced nationalist causes, wrote poetry to fashion themselves in the image of heroes and statesmen of Chinese antiquity. Focusing in particular on their creative adaptation and re-envisioning of Wen Tianxiang's "Song of the Righteous Spirit," Fraleigh analyzes how Fujita T?ko, Yoshida Shōin, Takasugi Shinsaku, Saigō Takamori, and others reworked specific Chinese allusions and texts, which in turn circulated as an intertextual currency among the shishi . Through writings thus enriched by a selfreferential intertextuality, shishi forged important social and literary connections among themselves. The process of naturalization, argues Fraleigh, happened not through the de-sinification of the poetic form itself, but rather through the exploitation of an expanding discursive sphere that became increasingly contemporaneous and localized.

Songs of the Righteous Spirit: "Men of High Purpose" and Their Chinese Poetry in Modern Japan

This article examines available narratives and modes of representation concerning “civilization” and “savagery” in the early Meiji proto-colonial discursive sphere. It focuses on a major event in the 1874 Taiwan Expedition: Japan's capture and attempted assimilation of an orphaned aboriginal girl. Through an analysis of Japanese newspaper reports, woodblock prints, illustrated books, and commercial photography, this article argues that alongside the well-characterized “rhetoric of aboriginal savagery” that exaggerated the otherness of Taiwanese indigenes, there developed a synergistic “rhetoric of aboriginal civilization” that emphasized the indigenes' capacity for transformation. This mode of representation stressed not the aboriginals' alterity but rather their latent affinity to Japan. According the aboriginal a measure of temporality, the rhetoric of aboriginal civilization formed an indispensable counterpart to the rhetoric of aboriginal savagery: one that affirmed the campaign's “civilizing” component by demonstrating its viability.

Transplanting the flower of civilization: the “peony girl” and japan's 1874 expedition to taiwan

Plucking Chrysanthemums: Narushima Ryūhoku and Sinitic Literary Traditions in Modern Japan

The 1874 Taiwan Expedition was a watershed event for early Meiji journalism, for it was during this conflict that Kishida Ginkō (1833–1905) became Japan's first war reporter. At a time when newspapers had only started to become a feature of daily life in Japan, Ginkō's pioneering coverage of the Taiwan campaign was an important demonstration of the newspaper's potential to the Meiji authorities, and his coverage likewise gave many readers their first concrete understandings of the reporter at work. This paper examines Ginkō's extensive writings on Taiwan with the goal of illuminating how the campaign, its setting, and the Taiwanese aborigines were understood by and represented to the Meiji reading public. It shows that more than simply conveying information about the Expedition to the reading public, Ginkō's reportage strove to situate the project as part of a broader colonial agenda that would impart ‘civilization’ to the indigenous population. In columns that stressed Japan's long-term strategic interes...

Matthew Fraleigh

Papers

Songs of the Righteous Spirit: "Men of High Purpose" and Their Chinese Poetry in Modern Japan

Transplanting the flower of civilization: the “peony girl” and japan's 1874 expedition to taiwan

Plucking Chrysanthemums: Narushima Ryūhoku and Sinitic Literary Traditions in Modern Japan

Japan's First War Reporter: Kishida Ginkō and the Taiwan Expedition

Kanshibun in the late Edo period