A Comparative Study on Japanese and American Colonial Policies

本研究项目旨在对日本和美国的殖民主义和殖民政策进行比较研究，基于两个国家框架内殖民/后殖民研究的最新著作。最初，在考虑到日本对台湾和朝鲜的殖民统治的同时，我调查了美国对菲律宾群岛的殖民政策。特别是对1898年开始的所谓“仁爱同化”政策的基本资料和基本著作进行了集中的收集和分析。通过研究，我发现由于需要对美国对菲律宾的殖民统治进行实证研究，我更多地关注于收集美国殖民政府官僚机构的基本数据。由于与包括保罗·克莱默教授在内的一些美国殖民主义领域的代表性学者进行了智力交流，我逐渐认识到殖民统治的性质体现在殖民政府内部的官僚机构和法律AP…对他们的殖民地有更多的顺从。而“宪政”是比较美国殖民政策和日本殖民政策的重要参数。特别是通过美国和日本分别在菲律宾和吐温建立殖民政府的过程，对殖民政策的宪政背景进行了深入的考察。同时，我试图将日本的殖民政策置于国际历史背景下。作为一个尝试性的结论，我认为美国和日本的殖民政策是19世纪末20世纪初历史阶段的产物。这两种殖民主义的共性表明，它们都处于一个新的国际历史阶段。因此，分析需要一个跨国框架，这在现有的研究中是很难找到的。我在2007-2008学年休假。在哈佛大学燕京研究所担任访问学者期间，我完成了这项研究的一本书长的手稿。较少

This research project is intended to a comparative study on Japanese and American colonialism and colonial policies, based upon recent works on colonial/post-colonial studies in each national framework. Initially, while keeping Japanese colonial rule over Taiwan and Korea in mind, I investigated American colonial policy toward the Philippine Islands. Particularly, I concentrated on collecting and analyzing primary materials and basic works on so-called “Benevolent Assimilation" policy starting in 1898. Through the research, I found that since empirical studies on American colonial rule over the Philippines needed to be developed, I focused more on collecting basic data on bureaucracy in the U. S. colonial administration.Thanks to the intellectual interaction with some representative scholars in the field of American colonialism, including Prof. Paul Kramer, I came to realize that the nature of colonial rule appeared in the bureaucracy within the colonial administration and the legal ap … More plication to their colonies. And “constitutionalism" is a vital parameter for comparing the American colonial policy to the Japanese one. Especially, through the process to establish the American and Japanese colonial administration respectively in the Philippines and Twain, I conduct a thorough investigation on constitutional background of colonial policy. At the same time, I tried to situate Japanese colonial policy in an international historical context. As a tentative conclusion, I argue that American and Japanese colonial policies are the product of the historical stage of late 19th and early 20 century. The commonalities of both colonialisms indicate that they were in a new international historical phase. Therefore, the analysis requires an transnational framework, which is hardly found in the existing studies.I was on a sabbatical leave from the academic year of 2007 to 2008. While being a visiting scholar at the Harvard's Yenching Institute, I was able to finish a book-length manuscript of this study. Less