Outcasts of empire Japan's rule on Taiwan's "savage border," 1874-1945
"Outcasts of Empire unveils the causes and consequences of capitalism's failure to "batter down all Chinese walls" in modern Taiwan. Adopting micro- and macrohistorical perspectives, Paul D. Barclay argues that the interpreters, chiefs, and trading-post operators who mediated sta...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
2018, [2018]©2018
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| Edition: | [Open Access edition] |
| Series: | Asia Pacific Modern
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "Outcasts of Empire unveils the causes and consequences of capitalism's failure to "batter down all Chinese walls" in modern Taiwan. Adopting micro- and macrohistorical perspectives, Paul D. Barclay argues that the interpreters, chiefs, and trading-post operators who mediated state-society relations on Taiwan's "savage border" during successive Qing and Japanese regimes rose to prominence and faded to obscurity in concert with a series of "long nineteenth century" global transformations. Superior firepower and large economic reserves ultimately enabled Japanese statesmen to discard these mediators and sideline a cohort of Indigenous headmen who played both sides of the fence to maintain their chiefly status. Even with these reluctant "allies" marginalized, however, the colonial state lacked sufficient resources to integrate Taiwan's Indigenes into its disciplinary apparatus. The colonial state therefore created the Indigenous Territory, which exists to this day as a legacy of Japanese imperialism, local initiatives, and the global commodification of culture."--Back cover |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 307 pages illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| ISBN: | 0520296214 9780520296213 |