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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: allure of empire
    sub title: American encounters with Asians in the age of transpacific expansion and exclusion
  name:
    name part: Suh, Chris
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 296 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Empires were never the agents of progress as their apologists claimed. Yet during the Progressive Era, various people across the Pacific turned to empires as a source of empowerment. While the United States and Japan strove to emerge as the world's great powers, numerous Asians and African Americans embraced Japan to challenge the long-standing human inequality based on the color line. Japan's allure, however, was hardly limited to nonwhite peoples. American policymakers perceived Japan as a "progressive" empire akin to their own, and the two powers cultivated an amicable relationship across the color line, even as they competed for influence in Asia and conflicted over Japanese immigration to the American West. The Allure Empire traces how American ideas about Asians were made and remade on the imperial stage, and how these ideas shaped US foreign and immigration policies. Based on research conducted in South Korea and the United States, it uncovers how Americans justified Japan's colonial rule in Korea by comparing it to the US rule in Cuba and the Philippines. It reveals that the United States refused to exclude Japanese immigrants the same way as it had excluded Chinese and Indian immigrants until American perceptions of Japan took a negative turn, in light of Japan's violent treatment of Koreans and the Chinese. But even after Japanese exclusion in 1924, the mutual respect for "progressive" empires sustained the inter-imperial relationship until World War II, when both sides erased the history of their collaborations to cast each other as incompatible enemies.
  table of contents: Introduction : seeing race beyond the color line -- Empires of reform : the United States, Japan, and the end of Korean sovereignty, 1904-1905 -- Between empire and exclusion : the professional class at the helm of anti-Japanese politics, 1905-1915 -- Uplifting the "subject races" : American missionary diplomacy and the politics of comparative racialization, 1905-1919 -- Empires of exclusion : The abrogation of the gentlemen's agreement, 1919-1924 -- Faith in facts : the Institute of Pacific Relations and the quest for international peace, 1925-1933 -- Toward a new order : the end of the inter-Imperial relationship across the color line, 1933-1941 -- Epilogue : the world empires made.
  note: Chris Suh.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: a-ja---
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Japan
  subject:
    geographic: Japan
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Japan
    topic: Foreign relations
    temporal: 1912-1945
  classification: E183.8.J3 S845 2023
  classification: 327.73052
  identifier: 9780197631614
  identifier: 9780197631621
  identifier: 0197631622
  identifier: 0197631614
  identifier: 9780197631645
  identifier: 9780197631652
  identifier: 2022060622
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 221228
    record change date: 20250308175618.0
    record identifier: in00004729614