Comments on: Taiwanese modernity http://www.froginawell.net/china/2008/01/taiwanese-modernity/ The China History Group Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:35:30 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Michael Turton http://www.froginawell.net/china/2008/01/taiwanese-modernity/comment-page-1/#comment-87261 Michael Turton Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:42:52 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/china/2008/01/taiwanese-modernity/#comment-87261 1911 signifies, does it not? A wealthy patron purchasing a high-class whore? Businessmen buying out democracy that wants to sell out? The revolution bought and sold like a whore? A commentary on Yuan Shi-kai? Sun Yat-sen? Hard to tell. The FLICKR pool for Taiwan before 1946 is here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/taiwanbefore1946/pool/ There might be pictures of people with queues. But either way, it doesn't matter. I sifted through all my picture books of the 1910s and 20s here, and I couldn't find a single one. But 90% are taken outdoors and everyone is wearing hats; no picture with uncovered heads has a queue. Aha! George Kerr writes in Formosa: Licensed Revolution.... that a great queue-cutting ceremony was held in Tainan in 1910. No reason why someone wouldn't still be wearing one in 1911. He also says that the chinese contracts and agreements were legal in Japanese courts when they carried out the land reform and ownership rationalization during this same period. Michael 1911 signifies, does it not? A wealthy patron purchasing a high-class whore? Businessmen buying out democracy that wants to sell out? The revolution bought and sold like a whore? A commentary on Yuan Shi-kai? Sun Yat-sen? Hard to tell.

The FLICKR pool for Taiwan before 1946 is here:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/taiwanbefore1946/pool/

There might be pictures of people with queues. But either way, it doesn’t matter. I sifted through all my picture books of the 1910s and 20s here, and I couldn’t find a single one. But 90% are taken outdoors and everyone is wearing hats; no picture with uncovered heads has a queue.

Aha! George Kerr writes in Formosa: Licensed Revolution…. that a great queue-cutting ceremony was held in Tainan in 1910. No reason why someone wouldn’t still be wearing one in 1911. He also says that the chinese contracts and agreements were legal in Japanese courts when they carried out the land reform and ownership rationalization during this same period.

Michael

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