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<p>Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan has developed from the international conference ‘Refracted Colonial Modernity in the Art and Design of Taiwan’ (2001: National Museum of History, Taipei). Led by Dr Yuko Kikuchi, TrAIN Senior Research Fellow, the project includes a further eight national and international participants:</p>
<p><strong>Professor Chao-ching</strong> [Chaoqing] <strong>Fu</strong> (National Cheng Kung University), <strong>Dr Chia-yu Hu</strong> (National Taiwan University), <strong>Dr Kaoru Kojima</strong> (Jissen Women’s University), <strong>Ming-chu</strong> [Mingzhu] <strong>Lai</strong> (Chung-yuan University), <strong>Dr Hsin-tien Liao</strong> (Taiwan National University of Arts), <strong>Dr Naoko Shimazu</strong> (Birkbeck College, University of London), <strong>Professor Toshio Watanabe</strong> (TrAIN), <strong>Dr Chuan-ying Yen</strong> (Academia Sinica)</p>
<p>The Study of Taiwanese art as an independent disciplinary entity that is separate from Chinese art is a recent phenomenon. In the context of postcolonial studies Taiwan’s case is unique on account of its experience of colonization by a non-western country: Japan.</p>
<p>Taiwan adds different dimensions and complexities to current studies on colonialism in relation to modernity, which have been established primarily on the model of non-western countries colonized by Euroamerican countries. Modernity and identity in Taiwanese visual culture emerged in the cross-cultural complexity that Japanese colonization engendered. Their formation involves a range of interdependent cultural transfers and appropriations between Europe, Japan and Taiwan.</p>
<p>A collection of essays by project participants, edited by Yuko Kikuchi, was published by the University of Hawai’i Press in August 2007.</p>
<p>An exhibition takes place in Taipei in 2008.</p>
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