Placing Empire Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan / Kate McDonald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDonald, Kate, 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism--Political aspects--Japan--20th century.

Tourism.

Tourism--Japan--History--20th century.

Taiwan--Description and travel.

Taiwan.

Manchuria (China)--Description and travel.

Manchuria (China).

Korea--Description and travel.

Korea.

Japan--Colonies--Description and travel.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 254 pages) : illustrations (some colour), maps; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of California Press 2017

Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2017.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

"Placing Empire examines the spatial politics of Japanese imperialism through a study of Japanese travel and tourism to Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan between the late nineteenth century and the early 1950s. In a departure from standard histories of Japan, this book shows how debates over the place of colonized lands reshaped the social and spatial imaginary of the modern Japanese nation and how, in turn, this sociospatial imaginary affected the ways in which colonial difference was conceptualized and enacted. In so doing, it illuminates how ideas of place became central to the production of new forms of colonial hierarchy as empires around the globe transitioned from an era of territorial acquisition to one of territorial maintenance"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Seeing like the nation

The new territories

Boundary narratives

Local color

Speaking Japanese.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520967236

0520967232

OCLC:

1085410600