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The Japanese Adaptation of the Pao-Chia System in Taiwan, 1895–1945*

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Ching-Chih Chen
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Imperial China under the Ch'ing Administration (1664–1912) relied on a bureaucratically organized rural police system, known as the pao-chia, and other administrative institutions for the purpose of local control. The Ch'ing imperial view concerning the theoretical usefulness of this policing system is reflected in a number of edicts. In a 1799 edict, for example, Emperor Chia-ch'ing (1796–1820) said: “The method of pao-chia … as a means of detecting wicked and criminal persons and suppressing bandits at its source, is truly an excellent way to maintain local order.” In the early years of the mid-nineteenth century rebellions, at least through 1852, the imperial court retained its faith in this particular control institution.

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Symposium: Taiwan in Chinese History
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , February 1975 , pp. 391 - 416
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975

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30 Washizu, pp. 243–244. Virtually all prc-1945 Japanese writings, particularly official publications, termed the Taiwanese dissidents as “bandits” while all Taiwanese and Chinese writers understandably prefer to call them “anti-Japanese elements.”

31 Washizu, Taiwan keisatstt yonjūnen shiwa, p. 244. As of 1903 the application of the pao-chia system was not yet extended to the districts of Taitung, Han and P'enghu on account of the fact that there was no serious insurgent problem in these areas. [Washizu Atsuya, Taiwan hokō kōminka tofyihon (A reader on the Japanization of Taiwan's hokō; Taipei, 1941), p. 107.] It can be assumed that the Japanese had formed pao-chia units in the remaining districts by that year.

32 “Hokō jōrei shikō saisoku hyōjun,” art. 12. See also Nakamura, pp. 174–176.

33 Ho, p. 51; Chü, p. 153.

34 For the formal organization of the pao-chia-p'ai, see Hsiao, pp. 44, 49; Chü, p. 150.

35 FOR rules regulating the united hokō meeting see “Hokō jōrei shikō saisoku hyōjun,” arts. 15, 16.

36 “Hokō jōrei shikō kisoku,” art. 1.

37 “Hokō oyobi sōteidan no hensei ni kansuru chūi no ken,ō item I.

38 “Hokō jōrei shikō saisoku hyōjun,” art. 3.

39 Professor Arthur Wolf of Stanford University informed this writer at the Taiwan History Conference (September, 1972) that the Japanese pao-chia records in the Shulin area of northern Taiwan show that the pao-chia headmen had to be at least functionally literate.

40 “Hokō jōrei shikō kisoku,” art. 2; “Hokō jōrei shikō saisoku hyōjun,ō arts. 5–8; “Hokō oyobi sōteidan no hensei ni kansuru chūi no ken,” item 3.

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42 Ibid, art. 3; “Hokō jōrei shikō kisoku,” 3; “Hokō jōrei shikō saisoku hyōjun,” arts. 9–14 “Hokō oyobi sōteidan no hensei ni kansuru chūino ken,” items 7, 8.

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48 For the usurpation of the pao-chia functions by the gentry-led t'uan-lien, see Kuhn, pp. 50–63, 93–151; Hsiao, pp. 66–67; Chü, pp. 183–184.

49 Ide, p. 886.

50 “Hokō j—rei kisoku,” art. 9; “Hokō jōrei shikō saisoku hyōjun,” art. 26; “Hokō oyobi sōteidan no hensci ni kansuru chūi no ken,” item 7; Eizō, Ito, Taiwan gyōsei keisatsuhō (The police administrative law of Taiwan; Taipei, 1930), pp. 137–138.Google Scholar

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88 Ide, pp. 471–472.

89 Takekoshi, p. 151; Tsurumi Yūsuke, II, 159.

90 For the description of the pao-lan, see Hsiao, pp. 132–139; Kuhn, pp. 97–98.

91 Barclay.

92 Washizu, Taiwan keisatsu yonjūnen shiwa, p. 251.

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105 Ibid, p. 887.

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111 For Japan's basic colonial objectives in Taiwan, see Chen Ching-chih, pp. 1–4.

112 Ibid, pp. 102–118.

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115 Ibid

116 Kuhn, p. 225.

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120 See Yamazaki, pp. 210–214.

121 Rural settlements of the inhabitants of phinese ancestry were known as chuang or hsiang while those of the aborigines were termed she. [See Chien Wen-ta, Feng-shan hsien chih (A gazetteer of Fengshan district )in T'ai-wan yin-hang ching-chi yen-chtu shih, comp.. T'si-wan wen-hsien ts'ung-hjin (hereafter TWT), no. 124, pp. 25–26; Hsi, Chou, Chang-hna hsien chih (a gazetteer of Changhua district), in TWT, no. 156, p. 39.]Google Scholar

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125 The tsung-li was charged with the following major functions: management of t'uan-lien (local militia), organization of pao-chia, transmitting of district magistrate's orders, and management of community enterprises. [See Yen-hui, Tai, p. 63; Tan Hsin tang-an hsiian-lu hsing-cheng p'ien ts'uchi, pp. 413–593.]Google Scholar

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127 Sasaki, pp. 71–73.

128 Around 1870, there were altogether some 138 and its equivalents. [Tai-wan fu yü-t'u ts'uan-yao, pp. 9–17.1] In the first half of ihe Japanese period townships numbered about 450. This number was subsequently reduced to about 260 in 1920.

129 Ts'ai Cheng-fcng, Yüan-li chih (A gazeiieer of Yüanli), in TWT, no. 48, pp. 24–26

130 Sasaki, pp. 76–77.

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