Japan's imperial underworlds : intimate encounters at the borders of empire / David R. Ambaras.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ambaras, David Richard, 1962- author.

Series:

Asian connections (Series)

Asian connections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--History--20th century.

Japan.

History.

Japan--Relations--East Asia.

Relations.

East Asia.

East Asia--Relations--Japan.

International relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 281 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This major new study uses vivid accounts of encounters between Chinese and Japanese people living at the margins of empire to elucidate Sino-Japanese relations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each chapter explores mobility in East Asia through the histories of often ignored categories of people, including trafficked children, peddlers, 'abducted' women and a female pirate. These stories reveal the shared experiences of the border populations of Japan and China and show how they fundamentally shaped the territorial boundaries that defined Japan's imperial world and continue to inform present-day views of China. From Meiji-era treaty ports to the Taiwan Strait, South China, and French Indochina, the movements of people in marginal locations not only destabilized the state's policing of geographical borders and social boundaries, but also stimulated fantasies of furthering imperial power.

Contents:

Treaty ports and traffickers: Children's bodies, regional markets, and the making

Of national space

In the Antlion's pit: Abduction narratives and marriage migration between Japan

And fuqing

Embodying the borderland in the Taiwan Strait: Nakamura Sueko as runaway

Woman and pirate queen

Borders in blood, water, and ink: Ando Sakan's intimate mappings of the South China Sea.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108470117

1108470114

OCLC:

1028165230