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Outcasts of empire : Japan's rule on Taiwan's "savage border," 1874-1945 /

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"Outcasts of Empire probes the limits of modern nation-state sovereignty by positioning colonial Taiwan at the intersection of the declining Qing and ascending Japanese empires. Paul D. Barclay chronicles the lives and times of interpreters, chiefs, and trading-post operators along the far edge...

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Main Author: Barclay, Paul D., 1964- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Edition:[Open Access edition].
Series:Asia Pacific modern ; 16.
Luminos (University of California Press)
Subjects:
Taiwan aborigines > History > 20th century.
Japan > Colonies > History.
Taiwan > History > 1895-1945.
HISTORY / Asia / General.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : empires and indigenous peoples, global transformation and the limits of international society
  • From wet diplomacy to scorched earth : the Taiwan expedition, the Guardline and the Wushe rebellion
  • The long durĂ©e and the short circuit : gender, language and territory in the making of indigenous Taiwan
  • Tangled up in red : textiles, trading posts and ethnic bifurcation in Taiwan
  • The geobodies within a geobody : the visual economy of race-making and indigeneity.