台灣棒球、民族認同、和日本殖民主義(1895-1945)

Baseball, National Identity, and Japanese Colonialism in Taiwan. (1895-1945)

鍾俊敏(Chun-Min Chung)

《國立體育學院論叢》 17卷4期 (2006/12) Pp. 1-10

https://doi.org/10.6591/JPES.2006.12.01

摘要

本研究主要的目的是探討日本殖民時期台灣棒球與民族認同。近二十年來運動與民族主義之間的關係受到相當程度的討論，然而對於什麼型式的民族主義或是兩者間用什麼樣的方式交互作用，仍缺乏一精確的答案。棒球於日本殖民時期(1895-1945)傳入台灣，對台灣社會產生很大的影響。本研究發現，隨著不同階段的殖民政策改變，日本對於台灣人民從事棒球運動的態度也有所改變，從初期建立殖民者與被殖民者的階級差異，轉變為借由棒球運動消除族群衝突，進而幫助同化台灣人民。然而在地的台灣人民，雖形式上接受日本棒球文化，卻也同時經由棒球場上的對抗，發展出台灣民族認同，不過這樣的民族認同是很模稜的，是一種滲雜著日本和台灣兩個主體的認同形式。

關鍵字

棒球 ； 民族認同 ； 日本殖民主義

並列摘要

This paper examines the relationship between baseball and Taiwanese national identity in Japanese colonial period (1895-1945). Over the last two decades or more, the issues of sport and nationalism have been widely debated, but there has been a lack of precision in terms of the types of nationalism involved and the precise ways in which they interact with sport. The baseball played a significant role to Taiwanese society, during the era of Japanese colonialism. This study reveals that, the Japanese colonial government had different sports policy during the different stages of colonialism. In terms of class, baseball was employed as a tool of distinction between Japanese and Taiwanese by Japanese government, in the early stage. Later, they made use of it as a mean of reducing ethnic conflicts and facilitating the Japanization of Taiwanese people. Although formally the Taiwanese people had adopted Japanese baseball culture, actually the Taiwanese themselves had germinated certain national identity of Taiwan through the game matches on baseball. In sum, national identity was ambivalent with Japanese and Taiwanese nationalities.

並列關鍵字

Baseball ； National Identity ； Japanese Colonialism

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