Govern Taiwan： To distinguish governing policy of space between the Ching Dynasty, Japanese Colonial Authorities and Republic of China government from the evolution of administrative region

• Main Authors: Feng, Kuo-Chun, 馮國峻
• Other Authors: Hsia Li-Ming
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/swm6w6

碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 區域政策與發展研究所 === 96 === Administrative region in Taiwan has been adjusted many times between the ruling period of the Ching Dynasty and Republic of China government. Dominators always governed Taiwan by partitioning their territory. Why did they partition this region? How did they partition? What did they achieve from the partition of this region? What was the influence on the people during the process of partition? The relationship between the ruling power and the ruling of territory should be investigated based on administrative region, ruling policy and the people in Taiwan. This paper aims to present the ruling mechanism and governing policy of territory between the ruling period of the Ching Dynasty, Japanese Colonial Authorities and Republic of China government by investigating the evolution of administrative region: Why should it be adjusted? What is the dependence of the adjustment? What is the outcome after the adjustment? This study presents how the governors partitioned the territory of Taiwan in a bid to disunite the people for the purpose of ruling rather than how the partition of administrative region is appropriate for Taiwan. In this paper, The two terms “Capital” and “Coercion” presented by Charles Tilly for the explanation of the development of European states in modern century, “Disciplinary Society” proposed by Michel Foucault and “Production of Space” proposed by Henri Lefebvre have been employed to analyze the evolution of Taiwan’s administrative region for comprehending the operation of the ruler’s power during the adjustment of administrative region. According to the investigation of governing policy of territory over the ruling period of the Ching Dynasty, Japanese Colonial Authorities and Republic of China government, this study indicates that authorities of the Ching Dynasty had rationally ruled Taiwan and however, the reins of government could not be incorporated into the regional society because of ambiguous reign over the local government and thus limited their compelling power on the local government. Japanese colonial authorities and Republic of China government had fulfilled the normalization and bureaucratization of local government by means of their powerful administrative ability and thus enhanced the authority of the rulers. After World War II, Chinese government became a partner in the world capitalism system through the support of American and provided a capitalistic environment to meet the requirement of this system. Both of the two authorities molded a new society in Taiwan, recreating the traditional society based on agricultural economics to enhance the development of capitalistic environment by means of the edification of mechanism. As a result, Taiwan has been “governmentalization”.