Japan's colonial legacy has shaped many of the customs and mannerisms of Taiwanese. When Japan's suppressive wartime policies were lifted following, Taiwanese were eager to continue with their prewar activities. Japan's effort taught Taiwan's elite, Japanese culture and language, but did not largely interfere in religious organization. Beginning during Japan's build up for war, Japan invigorated its policies to Japanize Taiwan for mobilization against the Allies. By the middle of the Japanese era (1895–1945), Taiwan had begun to shift from local to contemporary global culture, under the guidance of Japanese style “westernization”. Due to Taiwan's strategic location along East Asian trade routes, Taiwanese were also exposed to cosmopolitan influences and the effects of European commerce.
Dancer in traditional aboriginal dress Before the ceded Taiwan to Japan in 1895, Taiwan's culture was characterized by Qing frontier societies of farmers and highland. For most of its colonized existence, Taiwan remained on the cultural margins, far from the centers of civil and cultural life of each regime, and with every regime change, Taiwan's cultural center shifted.Īt various times Taiwan's cultural center has been, Amsterdam, (Amoy), -era Beijing, postwar China and even, arguably, the United States. Main article: Taiwan's culture and cultural legacy has been largely shaped by the processes of and as the structural and psychological effects of successive colonial projects have been integral to developing Taiwan's self-image and the evolution of both official and unofficial Taiwanese culture.
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