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Bodies and Structures 2.0: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian History

Ishigaki Shincho (1915-2009)

Ishigaki Shincho was born on Ishigaki Island in 1915. After graduating from the Advanced Course of Ishigaki Primary School (Ishigaki kōtō shōgakkō), he went to Taiwan for the first time in 1929. All of his elder sisters and brothers had been already in Taiwan. Arriving in Taipei, he stayed with his older brother of twelve years, who worked as a shop assistant.

While he worked at a printing factory for five years, he went to an evening school in Taipei City. Completing the school, he moved to Kaohsiung and became an apprentice in a photographic school for another few years. He finally opened his own photographic shop in Kaohsiung, but soon joined the military service. After the war, he tried to reopen the business, but had to leave Taiwan under the KMT government.

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Yamane Keiko and the Gendered Space of Empire
In colonial Taiwan, it was uncommon for Japanese female migrants to have full-time jobs. The majority came to Taiwan as dependent family members. In contrast, it was not unusual for female youths from Yaeyama to immigrate to Taiwan in search of work.
Yamane Keiko was not representative of all female Yaeyama migrants. The majority of Yaeyama migrants without educational and professional backgrounds accepted the reality of their situations and continued to work as domestics, regardless of their personal feelings. Having been attracted by the "civilized life of Taipei," Yamane was determined to make career and did her best in the colonial city.
Nevertheless, imperial careering of Yaeyama immigrants was undeniably gendered at that time. To compare with the trajectory of Ishigaki Shincho, Yamane's professional options were limited, and her colonial space was inclined to the domestic space. Yaeyama sent a large number of both female and male immigrants to Taiwan, but women and men made the different imperial space.

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Ishigaki Shincho in later age