I argue that architecture and urbanism during Japanese occupation are a project of building colonial modernity; that is, modernity without subjectivity.

• 作者强调，首先，由世界史之中的第三世界历史的角度，尤其是由十八世纪末到十九世纪的殖民建筑与城市之历史系谱，审视日本殖民时期的台湾建筑与城市。