Introduction:

With the three guidelines of ‘Imperial subjectification (kōminka), Industrialization, and the Southern Expansion Doctrine’ as tenants for his rule over Taiwan in 1936, Governor-General Seizō Kobayashi declared Taiwan to be a base for the execution of the Southern Expansion Doctrine. ‘Southern expansion’ became a main axis of official policy for the Japanese Empire in their governance of Taiwan as the propaganda film Southward Expansion to Taiwan was presented at the end. Initiated since 2017 in Taiwan, Nusantara Archive sets Malay Archipelago as a framework and method for decolonizing local history. Through a comparative reading of shared histories within the region, the archive can be concatenated in the collective imagination of ‘the rest’ under the nationalist vision. Regional art practitioners are invited to collaborate in writing articles/proposals to inquiry the pre-nationalist approaches beyond the position of the nation-state.

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(Updated 2022/10/31: Due to the latest plan for the Nusantara Archive publications as the decentralized infrastructure based on blockchain, we no longer provide printed and PDF file of 《群島資料庫07：播音員》or Nusantara Archive 07: The Broadcaster(s). Please read the online version here.)