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Date: 2022/02/24
Time: 10:00~12:00
Venue: Archives 1st Conference Hall
Speaker:Dr. Jonathan Henshaw (Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica)
Disscussant: Prof. Sun Huei-min (Associate research fellow, IMH, Academia Sinica)
Organizer: IMH
視訊會議連結:https://asmeet.webex.com/asmeet/j.php?MTID=mb99cbc5e0e02ad67d06dd2984b2c178d 會議號:2516 472 7614 密碼:USWB6A7983 Webex Meetings 操作說明及FAQ Abstract: This paper takes up the topic of “enslavement education,” as it has been known, under the Wang Jingwei regime in occupied China from 1940 through 1945. Rather than a focus on overarching ideology or Japanese goals in occupied China, this paper considers how such education policies were carried out and experienced. It does so by examining the establishment of National Central University in Nanjing, the production of textbooks under the regime, and the experience of university students and their involvement in protest movements as revealed in official university publications, civics textbooks, newspaper reports, trial records and student memoirs that began circulating unofficially in China in from the 1980s onward. This paper suggests that Japanese control and indoctrination over youth under the Wang regime was more limited than the term “enslavement” might indicate, particularly when seen in the broader context of the Japanese Empire and its control over Taiwan and the state of Manchukuo. In particular, civic education under the Wang regime emphasized service to the nation and the importance of Sun Yat-sen and the Three Principles of the People. Moreover, the suspicion with which the post-war Nationalist regime viewed those in territories recovered from Japan provoked a sense of alienation that would have long-lasting consequences at a crucial turning point in the history of the Republic of China.