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In the early twentieth century, the Japanese colonial government initiated an island-wide malaria eradication campaign in Taiwan, resulting in not only a rapid decline in malaria across time but also elimination of disparity across regions. Exploiting variations in malaria deaths caused by the campaign, we estimate causal effects of malaria exposure around birth on the health of elderly born in the colonial period. To mitigate potential biases caused by measurement errors and omitted confounders, we employ climatic factors to instrument for malaria deaths. Our findings suggest that people who were exposed to a high malaria risk around birth tend to have a higher likelihood of cardiovascular diseases and worse cognitive functions at old age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author focuses on how China viewed Taiwan and the people of Taiwan between 1931, the year Japan invaded Manchuria, and 1941, the year the U.S. entered World War II. Some of the subjects considered include nationalism, Chinese identity, Chinese political thought, and the ideology of nation-building and cultural identity. An overview of the historiography of competing Chinese and Taiwanese national identity exemplified in the writings of historians Emma Jinhua Teng, Alan M. Wachman, and Steven E. Phillips, is presented.

Examines Taiwan in the Japanese period, focusing on an uprising in 1915 known as the Ta-pa-ni Incident and how the encroachments of the colonial state met with resistance. Relationship of the colonial state and the local society; Condition of the local society at the time of the Ta-pa-ni Incident; Impact of the Japanese colonial government; Effect of the Ta-pa-ni Incident on Local Society.

Explores the changes in camphor production with the coming of Japanese colonialism and the changes that celluloid brought to the world demand of camphor from 1886 to 1909 in Taiwan. Details of the commodity and tribe at the center of the late imperial frontier economy; Information on the customary forest rights and the system of mountain fees; Introduction of capitalist property relations to the forests.

Deals with interethnic marriage and cultural brokers in Taiwan under Japanese rule from 1895 to 1945. Details of the variety of ways in which Aboriginal women married to Japanese men played crucial intermediary roles; Exploration of the role of family systems and racialized ideologies in these formations; Information on marriage, concubinage and brokerage in the North.