{"title":"The Yin and the Yang of Wilhelm Solf: Reconstructing Colonial Superman","authors":"P. Hempenstall, Paula Mochida","doi":"10.1080/00223349808572867","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Wilhelm Solf is one of the ‘heroes’ of liberal historians’ representations of colonial rule in the Pacific Islands. A long line of historiography presents him as a sensitive interpreter and manipulator of Samoan culture and a skilled administrator whose reputation outlasts that of his New Zealand successors. This essay attempts a revisionist biographical analysis of his multiple identities via a critical re‐reading of Solfs relations with the white settler community of German Samoa 1900–10, It uses ideas drawn from biographical theory about personality and from discussions of Taoism in Asian thought. The encounter is shown to be more ambiguous and Solf more organically connected to the community he criticises than he was ever prepared to admit.","PeriodicalId":45229,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00223349808572867","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223349808572867","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract Wilhelm Solf is one of the ‘heroes’ of liberal historians’ representations of colonial rule in the Pacific Islands. A long line of historiography presents him as a sensitive interpreter and manipulator of Samoan culture and a skilled administrator whose reputation outlasts that of his New Zealand successors. This essay attempts a revisionist biographical analysis of his multiple identities via a critical re‐reading of Solfs relations with the white settler community of German Samoa 1900–10, It uses ideas drawn from biographical theory about personality and from discussions of Taoism in Asian thought. The encounter is shown to be more ambiguous and Solf more organically connected to the community he criticises than he was ever prepared to admit.
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The Journal of Pacific History is a refereed international journal serving historians, prehistorians, anthropologists and others interested in the study of mankind in the Pacific Islands (including Hawaii and New Guinea), and is concerned generally with political, economic, religious and cultural factors affecting human presence there. It publishes articles, annotated previously unpublished manuscripts, notes on source material and comment on current affairs. It also welcomes articles on other geographical regions, such as Africa and Southeast Asia, or of a theoretical character, where these are concerned with problems of significance in the Pacific.
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