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

Edition [Open Access edition] Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 307 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) Series Asia Pacific Modern ; 16 Luminos Asia Pacific modern ; 16. Luminos (University of California Press) 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Luminos online resource, viewed November 1, 2017; title from PDF title page Subject Taiwan aborigines -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- Asia -- General. Taiwan aborigines Kolonialismus SUBJECT Japan -- Colonies -- History Taiwan -- History -- 1895-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85131990 Subject Taiwan Japan Taiwan Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520968806 0520968808 9780520296213 0520296214

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