日治時期臺灣總督府新竹地區的客家社會統治：以《警友》雜誌為例

As for Japanese citizens living in Taiwan, their understandings about the Hakka ethnicity were based on impressions derived from the Taiwan Chronicle and those from the West. This research looks into sources of two main categories: historical documentations, as well as Japanese’ impressions on the Hakka ethnicity coming from daily experiences in living with the Hakka people. Especially the Japanese police who had real-life interactions with the Hakka people so as to acquire much more complete records on their lives and culture. Over all, the Japanese hold positive impressions on the Hakka society, such had been selected and shaped by the Japanese colonialists in forming an upbeat image on the Hakka ethnicity. The HsinChu state local government published an official newspaper “The Friend of Police” to report local business and to study the professional field of the police. As an experimental vanguard newspaper, not only did it construct a knowledge system but it also helped to train colonial governors to be more professional and know better about their local areas, which gradually built into a policy. As the colonial governors got into the rule of Taiwan deeper and deeper, the ethnic group of Hakka living in the mountain region became the main subject of study. Whether the governors could build a Hakka knowledge system or not was concerned with the success in their governance, and the learning of Hakka language became the important framework of the Hakka knowledge system. “The Friend of Police” was in itself an official mouthpiece which was mainly written in the point of view of the governors. Thus we can get a glimpse of the Japanese governors’ viewpoints at that time and how the policies made an impact on the local people. Looking into the Hakka language teaching materials for the police, we can see the Japanese colonials’ subtle intervention in Taiwan people’s life, which not only represented their natural mind but also displayed their image of authority during the procedure of enforcing the law. Such entire image came from having the knowledge of their colonial subjects in hand. By the use of control, and with the help of manipulating the law, Taiwanese were thus disciplined and reformed by the Japanese.