Negotiating imperialism : Murakami Naojiro's archival diplomacy / Birgit Tremml-Werner

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tremml, Birgit, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murakami, Naojirō, 1868-1966.

Murakami, Naojirō.

Archival resources--Japan.

Archival resources.

Japan--History.

Japan.

Japan--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Summary:

"In this study of Japan's imperial historiography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Birgit Tremml-Werner examines the use of history to promote expansion in the Asia-Pacific region. Focussing on historian-diplomat Murakami Naojirō, she highlights the impact of the archive and translation in knowledge creation. Combining empirical examples including early modern diplomatic missions to Europe, indigenous Taiwanese history, colonial education and post-war cultural diplomacy, this work emphasizes how the past is represented in the intertwined environments of history and memory. She argues that the Japanese case also reveals wider questions around the myth-making of nation states, and the extent to which 'historiographical violence' has silenced the voices of actors, including Indigenous peoples and women, within the archival record"-- Cambridge University Press

Contents:

Translator historian and scholar diplomat : Murakami's life of global knowledge

Formal diplomatic relations and the untranslatability of Gaikō

Entangled biographies and the imperialist creation of historical knowledge

Nan'yōshi : how to position Japan in Southeast Asian history

From Takasago's past to Taiwan's history : Murakami between silencing and exaggerating

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF Title page (Cambridge University Press, viewed November 12, 2025)

Other Format:

Print version: Tremml, Birgit. Negotiating imperialism

ISBN:

9781009640831

1009640836

9781009640817

100964081X

OCLC:

1545080565

Publisher Number:

CIPO000293640

Access Restriction:

Some versions: Open access versions available from some providers open access