Managing Marriage
Advice Columns and Interethnic Intimacy in Colonial Taiwan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12349308 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alison Darby (0000-0003-0325-3540, Australian National University, corresponding author), Alison J Darby (Australian National University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 227-245 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1035-7823 • E-ISSN: 1467-8403 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10357823.2021.1970106 |
| OpenAlex | W3196944611 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
This article examines interethnic marriage (naitai kyōkon) in colonial Taiwan in the early 1930s, which was a key site of contestation over the imagined imperial future. Its reading of political discourse on interethnic marriage alongside marital advice columns in colonial Taiwan’s largest daily newspaper, Taiwan nichinichi shinpō, reveals the contradictory ways in which interethnic marriage emerged in the popular imaginary as a site where the future of the empire could be consolidated – or undermined. Despite official endorsements of interethnic marriage, the pages of Taiwan nichinichi shinpō reveal widespread opposition to interethnic relationships. Such opposition – often rooted in racial prejudice – was simultaneously criticised as an obstacle to the state objective of ‘harmonious integration’ (naitai yūwa) and excused by marital advice columns due to concerns about sexual propriety. Amid widespread anxiety about upholding conservative sexual morality, advice columns were reluctant to unequivocally encourage enthusiastic young people to enter into interethnic marriages. Instead, they implied that colonial intimacy should be treated with caution. What emerges from these incongruous attitudes is an image of a colonial society still deeply ambivalent over how best to manage colonial intimacy and the future direction of the empire
Ambivalence · Colonialism · Empire · Media studies · Morality · Newspaper · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Romance, Family, and Nation in Japanese Colonial Literature
Imperial Romance
Becoming Japanese
Intermarriage and imperial subject formation in colonial Taiwan
Gendered Borders
Making the Japanese Empire
Transwar Continuities of Colonial Intimacy
Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers
The Discourse of Intermarriage in Colonial Taiwan
Education and Assimilation in Taiwan under Japanese Rule, 1895-1945
Cultural Brokerage and Interethnic Marriage in Colonial Taiwan
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |