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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Main Author: Barclay, Paul D., 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Edition:[Open Access edition].
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of 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 duree 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.