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After signing Treaty of Bakan, Isawa Shūji as the Chief of Education Bureau in Government of Taiwan came to Taiwan with Kabayama Sukenori, the Governor of Taiwan, to establish Taiwanese educational system. The system was divided into two major parts. One was the crucial undertaking that included the cultivation of lecturers and the establishment of Japanese Learning Schools, while the other permanent undertaking of setting up Japanese Schools and normal schools. Gentries in Taiwan were given the opportunities to receive modern education under Japanese rule.
Hsien-tang Lin, Shui-hsin Yang, Ji-tang Lin, Ling Chen, Li-jun Chang that received conventional education and Wang-cheng Huang, Xin-rong Wu that got a modern one were selected as observed objects. The researcher intended to analyze whether or not the style of parenting would differ for Taiwanese gentries that received conventional and modern education from their hand-written diaries.
Not only the characteristic of privacy, but also activities and behaviors in daily lives could be revealed in written texts of the diary owners. Consequently, private diaries are the most ideal materials feasible for observing parent-child interaction. Among existing diary studies, there has not been such research that aims at family upbringing, therefore makes it an exploitable issue for the researcher.
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