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Evan Dawley

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This Is Why We're Like This

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Ezra Klein

Billy West

Abigail Hing Wen

Ari Shapiro

Jim Henson

Norman Ornstein

Linda Gordon

Alex Haley

Saskia Sassen

David Folkenflik

Jacob Hacker

Gwendolyn Kiste

Frances Fox Piven

Teddy Ruxpin

John Mearsheimer

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Who were the Taiwanese before they called themselves Taiwanese? In this episode, we’re going back to school for a crash course in history with Dr. Evan Dawley. We discuss identity on the island before the Japanese colonial period, the influences of Japanese colonizers and the Kuomintang-led Republic of China, and identity among the modern Chinese diaspora. This historical overview of the formation and evolution of the Taiwanese identity provides context for present day conversations.Resources mentioned:Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s to 1950s (Harvard University Press) by Evan N. Dawley, Chinese edition (NTU Press)TaiwanPrimarySources.com, collected by Wayne Soon (Vassar College) and Evan Dawley (Goucher College)The 4th World Congress of Taiwan Studies, June 27 to 29, 2022 in Seattle, WashingtonOrphan of Asia by Zhuoliu WuGreen Island by Shawna Yang RyanTrends of Core Political Attitudes survey data by the Election Study Center at National Chengchi UniversityThe Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority by Madeline HsuThe Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan by Dominic YangAmerican Exodus: Second-Generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901–1949 by Charlotte BrooksRemembering China from Taiwan: Divided Families and Bittersweet Reunions after the Chinese Civil War by Mahlon Meyer“The War in Ukraine Has Unleashed a New Word” by Timothy Snyder for The New York Times MagazineMore publications by Evan DawleyAbout Evan: Evan Dawley is Associate Professor of History at Goucher College, where he has taught since 2013, and he previously worked in the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State. His research relates to modern East Asian history, with particular attention to Taiwan, China, and Japan, as well as identity formation, imperialism, and international/transnational history.Connect:instagram.com/heartsintaiwanfacebook.com/heartsintaiwanheartsintaiwan.com

Who were the Taiwanese before they called themselves Taiwanese? In this episode, we’re going back to school for a crash course in history with Dr. Evan Dawley. We discuss identity on the island before the Japanese colonial period, the influences of Japanese colonizers and the Kuomintang-led Republic of China, and identity among the modern Chinese diaspora. This historical overview of the formation and evolution of the Taiwanese identity provides context for present day conversations.Resources mentioned:<ul><li><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Becoming_Taiwanese/ofgFEAAAQBAJ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s to 1950s</a> (<a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674237209" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Harvard University Press</a>) by Evan N. Dawley, <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/%E6%88%90%E7%82%BA%E8%87%BA%E7%81%A3%E4%BA%BA/VypEEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;kptab=overview" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chinese edition</a> (<a href="http://www.press.ntu.edu.tw/en/publish/show.php?act=book&amp;refer=ntup_book01191" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NTU Press</a>)</li><li><a href="https://taiwanprimarysources.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TaiwanPrimarySources.com</a>, collected by Wayne Soon (Vassar College) and Evan Dawley (Goucher College)</li><li>The 4th <a href="https://wcts.sinica.edu.tw/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">World Congress of Taiwan Studies</a>, June 27 to 29, 2022 in Seattle, Washington</li><li><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Orphan_of_Asia/EVSsAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Orphan of Asia</a> by Zhuoliu Wu</li><li><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/JXvaCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjx5OWCo7H3AhW5LTQIHcZjDP4Qre8FegQIERAH" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Green Island</a> by Shawna Yang Ryan</li><li><a href="https://esc.nccu.edu.tw/eng/PageDoc?fid=7424" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Trends of Core Political Attitudes</a> survey data by the Election Study Center at National Chengchi University</li><li><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Good_Immigrants/1jFRDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=0&amp;kptab=overview" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority</a> by Madeline Hsu</li><li><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Great_Exodus_from_China/Zsf3DwAAQBAJ?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan</a> by Dominic Yang</li><li><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/VGSdDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;kptab=overview" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">American Exodus: Second-Generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901–1949</a> by Charlotte Brooks</li><li><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Remembering_China_from_Taiwan/wFRQnyePnvUC?hl=en&amp;gbpv=0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Remembering China from Taiwan: Divided Families and Bittersweet Reunions after the Chinese Civil War</a> by Mahlon Meyer</li><li>“<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/magazine/ruscism-ukraine-russia-war.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The War in Ukraine Has Unleashed a New Word</a>” by Timothy Snyder for The New York Times Magazine</li><li><a href="https://www.goucher.edu/learn/academic-centers/humanities/faculty/evan-dawley" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">More publications</a> by Evan Dawley</li></ul>About Evan: Evan Dawley is Associate Professor of History at Goucher College, where he has taught since 2013, and he previously worked in the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State. His research relates to modern East Asian history, with particular attention to Taiwan, China, and Japan, as well as identity formation, imperialism, and international/transnational history.Connect: <a href="https://instagram.com/heartsintaiwan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">instagram.com/heartsintaiwan</a> <a href="https://facebook.com/heartsintaiwan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">facebook.com/heartsintaiwan</a> <a href="https://heartsintaiwan.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">heartsintaiwan.com</a>

Becoming Taiwanese: Identity formation with Evan Dawley

Geoffrey's friend Evan Dawley, author of Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s-1950s, joins us to talk about a movie he watched like ten times as a D&amp;D-loving teenager: Legend. This movie was directed by Ridley Scott (what!?) and stars a pre-Top Gun Tom Cruise and his love interest, Mia Sara (AKA Sloane from Ferris Bueller's Day Off).Here's Evan's Summary:Legend was on cable back when I was in my early/mid-teens, not long after my family got cable, and when I was playing a lot of D&amp;D, so I watched it many times. With all that, I was expecting to have a good memory of the plot, but as I sat down to write this, I realized that there are a lot of gaps in my memory—or maybe those are in the movie itself? So, here goes. The movie is set in some idyllic village, where the lead character, a young woman (Mia Sara), wanders in the fields on a perfect summer afternoon, to the sound of synthesizers. She heads for the forest, passing the cottage of a familiar older woman—who is evidently from a lower class—who warns her to be careful as she heads into the forest; the older woman specifically warns the young woman about "old oaks." As she walks among the trees, the sky turns dark, the wind picks up, and she is suddenly in a different realm. I think she literally falls down a hole. In this new realm, which is dark and scary, she encounters a few characters who I guess are there to help her, but are really kind of weird. There is a seriously creepy, and shirtless, elf who does most of the initial talking; a short creature with a human body and a boar's head who says less; and a dreamy, loin-clothed youth named Jack (Tom Cruise); this is the only name I remember from the entire film. They try to help her, I'm not sure initially from what, maybe to get home, maybe from the darkness in the realm. They go to some fancy house, where they encounter an impressively-designed demon (Tim Curry), who Boar's Head refers to as "Big D!" The young woman falls under his spell and is transformed from Sweet Country Girl to Scary Goth Princess. Jack comes to her rescue, I think he wields a sword in the process, they escape from the demon, return to the place where she entered the realm, and then she crosses back into her familiar forest. She walks home on a perfect summer's day to the sound of synthesizers.This movie had a synthtastic 80s soundtrack (well, the US version did, anyway), and great creature work, but tonally and plot wise, it is a hot messssss. Evan remembered a lot, but also forgot a lot of stuff, like Lily's name, and that the Tim Curry demon was called "The Big D" because… of course he was. … Evan also forgot the unicorns…  So there's that.Geoffrey points out that this is the second movie we've done with a gump in it. Weird. This one is way different than the one in Return to Oz, though.  Thanks to Evan for joining us!If you're having fun listening to us, please tell your friends about us! Subscribe to our newsletter at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com for free, or pay $5/month to get access to two bonus paid episodes each month! We're also on Patreon if that's your jam! Rate and review us! follow us on Twitter where we're @thisiswhy_pod! And, of course, you can always drop us a note at at thisiswhywerelikethis@gmail.com. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe

Geoffrey's friend Evan Dawley, author of Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s-1950s, joins us to talk about a movie he watched like ten times as a D&amp;D-loving teenager: Legend. This movie was directed by Ridley Scott (what!?) and stars a pre-Top Gun Tom Cruise and his love interest, Mia Sara (AKA Sloane from Ferris Bueller's Day Off).Here's Evan's Summary:Legend was on cable back when I was in my early/mid-teens, not long after my family got cable, and when I was playing a lot of D&amp;D, so I watched it many times. With all that, I was expecting to have a good memory of the plot, but as I sat down to write this, I realized that there are a lot of gaps in my memory—or maybe those are in the movie itself? So, here goes. The movie is set in some idyllic village, where the lead character, a young woman (Mia Sara), wanders in the fields on a perfect summer afternoon, to the sound of synthesizers. She heads for the forest, passing the cottage of a familiar older woman—who is evidently from a lower class—who warns her to be careful as she heads into the forest; the older woman specifically warns the young woman about "old oaks." As she walks among the trees, the sky turns dark, the wind picks up, and she is suddenly in a different realm. I think she literally falls down a hole. In this new realm, which is dark and scary, she encounters a few characters who I guess are there to help her, but are really kind of weird. There is a seriously creepy, and shirtless, elf who does most of the initial talking; a short creature with a human body and a boar's head who says less; and a dreamy, loin-clothed youth named Jack (Tom Cruise); this is the only name I remember from the entire film. They try to help her, I'm not sure initially from what, maybe to get home, maybe from the darkness in the realm. They go to some fancy house, where they encounter an impressively-designed demon (Tim Curry), who Boar's Head refers to as "Big D!" The young woman falls under his spell and is transformed from Sweet Country Girl to Scary Goth Princess. Jack comes to her rescue, I think he wields a sword in the process, they escape from the demon, return to the place where she entered the realm, and then she crosses back into her familiar forest. She walks home on a perfect summer's day to the sound of synthesizers.This movie had a synthtastic 80s soundtrack (well, the US version did, anyway), and great creature work, but tonally and plot wise, it is a hot messssss. Evan remembered a lot, but also forgot a lot of stuff, like Lily's name, and that the Tim Curry demon was called "The Big D" because… of course he was. … Evan also forgot the unicorns… So there's that.Geoffrey points out that this is the second movie we've done with a gump in it. Weird. This one is way different than the one in Return to Oz, though. Thanks to Evan for joining us!If you're having fun listening to us, please tell your friends about us! Subscribe to our newsletter at <a href="http://thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com</a> for free, or pay $5/month to get access to two bonus paid episodes each month! We're also on Patreon if that's your jam! Rate and review us! follow us on Twitter where we're @thisiswhy_pod! And, of course, you can always drop us a note at at <a href="mailto:thisiswhywerelikethis@gmail.com">thisiswhywerelikethis@gmail.com</a>. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="http://thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe</a>

Legend with Evan Dawley