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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barclay, Paul D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press 2018, [2018]©2018
Edition:[Open Access edition]
Series:Asia Pacific Modern
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • 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 durée 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