Outcasts of Empire: Japan`s Rule on Taiwan`s "Savage Border, " 1874-1945, Barclay Paul D.

Superior firepower and large economic reserves ultimately enabled Japanese statesmen to discard mediators on the border and sideline a cohort of indigenous headmen who played both sides of the fence to maintain their chiefly status. Even with reluctant allies marginalized, however, the colonial state lacked sufficient resources to integrate Taiwans indigenes into its disciplinary apparatus. The colonial state therefore created the Indigenous Territory, which exists to this day as a legacy of Japanese imperialism, local initiatives, and the global commodification of culture.