Negotiating imperialism : Murakami Naojiro's archival diplomacy /
"In this study of Japan's imperial historiography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Birgit Tremml-Werner examines the use of history to promote expansion in the Asia-Pacific region. Focussing on historian-diplomat Murakami Naojirō, she highlights the impact of the archi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press,
2025
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "In this study of Japan's imperial historiography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Birgit Tremml-Werner examines the use of history to promote expansion in the Asia-Pacific region. Focussing on historian-diplomat Murakami Naojirō, she highlights the impact of the archive and translation in knowledge creation. Combining empirical examples including early modern diplomatic missions to Europe, indigenous Taiwanese history, colonial education and post-war cultural diplomacy, this work emphasizes how the past is represented in the intertwined environments of history and memory. She argues that the Japanese case also reveals wider questions around the myth-making of nation states, and the extent to which 'historiographical violence' has silenced the voices of actors, including Indigenous peoples and women, within the archival record"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9781009640831 1009640836 9781009640817 100964081X |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781009640817 |