Outcasts of Empire : Japan's Rule on Taiwan's "Savage Border," 1874-1945 /

"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Barclay, Paul D., 1964- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Oakland, California] : University of California Press, [2018]
Series:	Asia Pacific modern ; 16.
Subjects:	Taiwan aborigines > History > 20th century. Taiwan > History > 1895-1945. Japan > Colonies > History. Autochtones > Taiwan > Histoire > 20e siècle. Taiwan > Histoire > 1895-1945. Taiwan aborigines Taiwan 1895-1999 19th century. allies. border. chiefs. chinese. colonial state. disciplinary apparatus. economic reserves. firepower. global commodification. global transformations. imperialism. indigenous headmen. indigenous territory. international relations. interpreters. japan. japanese regime. mediators. qing regime. state society relations. statesmen. taiwan. trading post operators. Electronic books. History
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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 duree 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.