Urban History of "Disarmament": Spatial Configuration of the 17-20 Century Taiwan

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20H02340
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 23040:Architectural history and design-related
• Research Institution: Meiji University
• Principal Investigator: Aoi Akihito 明治大学, 理工学部, 専任教授 (20278857)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 台湾史 / 建築史・都市史・領域史 / 武装解除 / 清朝体制と日本植民地体制 / 朱一貴事件・林爽文事件・戴湖春事件・雲林事件 / 蘭陽平原 / 竹圍

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study attempts to reinterpret Taiwanese history from the 17th century to the early 20th century through the new perspective of territorial history, linking the crises and recovery of order to subsequent regional development. The process from the overthrow of the Zheng regime in the 17th century, the establishment of Qing rule, to the suppression of the Zhu Yigui rebellion and the Lin Shuangwen rebellion in the 18th century and the Daikoku rebellion in the 19th century, follows a pattern of military disarmament and subsequent regional development that strengthens leading merchant capital. From this perspective, the suppression of anti-Japanese armed groups following the cession of Taiwan at the end of the 19th century can be seen as a continuous historical process. In contrast, the regional development in the early 20th century transferred this traditional mechanism to that of Japanese industrial capital, supported by modern local administration and infrastructure construction.

Free Research Field

建築史・都市史・領域史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

我国の都市史研究は、近年「領域史」と呼ばれる展開をみせている。それは都市の内的な秩序の理解から、自然環境や生産環境を含む都市の存立条件それ自体の吟味へと着眼を移すことでなければならないが、そうした問題意識が現実には希薄であるなかで、秩序の危機と回復という軍事的過程への注目の重要性を喚起するものである。これは平和とは何かを、都市史・領域史の立場から問う試みでもある。