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Author Barclay, Paul D., 1964- author.

Title Outcasts of empire : Japan's rule on Taiwan's "savage border," 1874-1945 / Paul D. Barclay.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
©2018

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Edition [Open Access edition].
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 307 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Asia Pacific Modern ; 16
Luminos
Asia Pacific modern ; 16.
Luminos (University of California Press)
Note Luminos online resource, viewed November 1, 2017; title from PDF title page.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 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.
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
Subject Taiwan aborigines -- History -- 20th century.
Japan -- Colonies -- History.
Taiwan -- History -- 1895-1945.
Autochtones -- Taiwan -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Taiwan -- Histoire -- 1895-1945.
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
Taiwan aborigines
Taiwan
Kolonialismus
Japan
Taiwan
Chronological Term 1895-1999
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Barclay, Paul D., 1964- Outcasts of empire. [Open Access edition]. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] (DLC) 2017030926
ISBN 9780520968806 (electronic bk.)
0520968808 (electronic bk.)
9780520296213
0520296214
Standard No. 40027715391

 
    
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