植民地時代の台湾における日常生活と日記

Diaries offer insights into everyday modernity. The appeal of diaries is to be explained by a growing academic interest in everyday life. Our world is part of-- not external to--everyday life. Everyday life, as we know it, is of course never perfect, but to treat it with silence, as has been the practice, is to deny both its problematic as a discourse and its potentiality for generating a counter-discourse.In section I of what follows, I take up the issue of "diaries as everyday life" to illustrate everyday practice in colonial Taiwan. In Section II, using Utsumi Chuji as a case study, I demonstrate that the Utsumi diary reveals much of the man\u27s private life, family, and leisure activities, and also of his social networking in a colonial context. In Section III, I draw on the newly published diaries by two elite Taiwanese, Zhang Lijun and Lin Xiantang, and explore them in their own right in the colonial setting of Taiwan under Japanese rule (1895-1945). These diaries also reveal the limitations of the Utsumi diary. The information provided in diaries is a vital vew source for reconstructing the history of colonial Taiwan. Thistrend of discovering dairies as Taiwan studies reflects both the optimism and the anxieties of the post-martial-law generations as they seek self-identity, just as the construction of a "national" identity in Taiwan seems to be all but impossible