- List of Figures, Tables, Maps*
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Note to the Reader
- Introduction
- 1. Building and Populating a Vanguard City
- 2. “Love of City and Love of Self”: Constructing Identities in the Crucible of Jilong
- 3. “Civilization Enters Here”: Local Elites, Social Organizations, and the Reterritorialization of Jilong
- 4. Sacred Spaces: Religions and the Construction of Identities
- 5. Realms of Welfare: Social Work and Border Defense
- 6. Defining New Boundaries in the Reconstruction of Jilong, 1945–1947
- 7. Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Re-creation of Jilong, 1945–1955
- Epilogue: History, Memory, and the Usage and Utility of Taiwanese Ethnicity
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- * Figures, Tables, Maps
- Figures
- 1.1. Three Views of Taiwan: The Rain of Kiirun, left panel
- 1.2. Three Views of Taiwan: The Rain of Kiirun, center panel
- 1.3. The Jilong train station
- 1.4. The Osaka Shipping Company building in Jilong
- 1.5. Jilong’s import and export trade, 1897–1944
- 1.6. Population of Jilong, by origin, 1898–1941
- 1.7. Composition of Jilong population, by origin, 1905–41
- 1.8. Shintanagai (Ch., Xindian) Street in the islander district of Big Jilong
- 1.9. Gijū (Ch., Yizhong) Street in the Japanese district of Small Jilong
- 1.10. Yan Yunnian
- 1.11. Yan Guonian
- 1.12. Xu Zisang
- 1.13. Ishizaka Sōsaku
- 1.14. Kimura Kutarō
- 1.15. Ōmi Tokigorō
- 1.16. A coal mine owned by Kimura Kutarō
- 1.17. A coal mine owned by Yan Yunnian
- 2.1. The Japanese red-light district in the Denryōkō district of Jilong
- 2.2. The Jilong Aquarium
- 2.3. The new Jilong city government building, 1932
- 3.1. The former post office in Jilong
- 3.2. Jilong Public Hall
- 3.3. Panoramic view of Jilong’s harbor (detail)
- 4.1. Qing’an Temple
- 4.2. Dianji Temple
- 4.3. Jilong Shrine
- 4.4. Kubōji Temple
- 4.5. Water lanterns
- 4.6. The procession of a deity-welcoming festival
- 5.1. Headquarters of the Jilong Fraternity Group
- 6.1. A Japanese family selling their belongings
- 6.2. Japanese awaiting deportation
- 6.3. Bombed buildings in Jilong
- 6.4. Rebuilding Jilong after the devastation of war
- Tables
- 2.1. Japanese language comprehension among Taiwanese in Jilong, 1932–35
- 5.1. Cases handled by welfare commissioners in Jilong and northern Taiwan
- 6.1. Jilong’s wartime and postwar populations
- 7.1. The fate of Japanese temples in Jilong, 1950s
- Maps
- 1.1. Taiwan and the southeast coast of China
- 1.2. Jilong harbor, circa 1860
- 1.3. Prewar Jilong
- 2.1. State institutions
- 3.1. Social organizations
- 4.1. Sacred spaces
- 6.1. Postwar Jilong
- Figures