本文回顧近三十年來日本殖民統治時期臺灣史研究的成果，點描臺灣與日本學界在研究課題、研究取徑上的流變，以及其間交織的外在政治社會之變動、內在研究問題之克服。同時，觀照研究社群的動向、關注的核心問題，及其所帶動的影響與知識生產之關係。文中指出，1990年之後，臺灣方面明顯可見對過去官方民族主義與二元對立史觀之挑戰，對於「近代化」、「主體性」的關心也在此浮現；日本方面則興起了臺灣研究與日本帝國史研究。2000年以後，跨國的研究交流圍繞著「殖民近代性」的概念展開豐碩的成果，但不同主題的切入也折射出較「殖民近代性」更複雜的樣態。隨著民間史料採集、口述歷史的推展，以及日本帝國史反思等動向，無論臺灣或日本學界，都轉換了研究視角，更注重臺灣在地社會的對應、不同歷史行動者之間的關係。相對於明確可見的收奪和壓制，也探向幽微不顯卻滲透至生活中的各種權力、規訓與知識霸權，並重考知識生成之脈絡及其與治理性的關係。文末則借用莎拉‧瑪札《想想歷史》中的「誰的歷史」、「何處的歷史」、「什麼的歷史」，檢視日治臺灣史研究的累積與變化之軌跡，以此確認現時研究成果所在的位置，期與讀者一同思索未來前進的方向。

This article reviews the historical studies on Japanese colonial Taiwan over the last thirty years. This article aims to sketch trends seen in research topics and approaches, in the academic environment interweaving with external political and social contexts, and in overcoming internal research questions. This review article also highlights academic communities’ activities, the research topics they pursued, and the relationship between their influence and the knowledge they produced. This article points out that after 1990 there emerged challenges to the received historical viewpoints of binary opposition based on the official nationalism, while interests in themes of “modernization” and of “subjectivity” also came to the fore. In Japan, research fields such as Taiwan Studies and Japanese Imperial History Studies were on the rise. After 2000, international dialogues concerning the concept of “colonial modernity” inspired many studies. Meanwhile, disparate perspectives on “colonial modernity” led to understanding of its historical complexities. With the developments of collecting common people’s historical material resources and of documenting oral histories, as well as the trend of rethinking Japanese “imperial history” from new perspectives, academic circles in Japan and Taiwan shifted focus to emphasize the Taiwanese responses in local society and the relationships between diverse historical actors. Despite the visible exploitation and suppression, recent studies pay special attention to the working of invisible and disciplinary power and intellectual hegemony that silently penetrated daily life, and revisit the context of the knowledge production and its relation with governmentality. The conclusion borrows the ideas of “the history of whom?”, “the history of where?”, and “the history of what?” from Sarah Maza’s Thinking about History in order to examine the trajectory and changes in historical studies on Japanese colonial Taiwan. Having reviewed the current state of field, this article would like to invite readers to work together for the future development of the field.

臺灣史;日本帝國史;學術社群;知識生產;研究回顧

Taiwan history; Japanese imperial history; academic communities;knowledge production;research review