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    Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border,” 1874–1945

    Paul D. Barclay

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    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 mediators on the border and sideline a cohort of indigenous headmen who played both sides of the fence to maintain their chiefly status. Even with 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.

    “Sophisticated and engaging. This highly original narrative of a formative period will be of great interest to all those concerned with comparative colonial history.” NICHOLAS THOMAS, Professor of Historical Anthropology, University of Cambridge

    “A multisided and multiscale analysis—incorporating global, regional, and local scales— embedded in a coherent and compelling narrative.” PRASENJIT DUARA, Oscar Tang Professor of East Asian Studies, Duke University

    “Analytically precise and theoretically ambitious. A must-read for anyone interested in the fate of indigenous peoples under modern colonialism.” LOUISE YOUNG, author of Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism

    PAUL D. BARCLAY is Professor of History at Lafayette College. He is also general editor of the East Asia Image Collection, an open-access online digital repository of historical materials.

    Disciplines:

    Asian Studies  History 

    Language: English

    ISBN:
    EPUB 978-0-520-96880-6
    Mobi 978-0-520-96880-6
    Paperback 978-0-520-29621-3
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.41

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    How to cite this book
    Barclay, P. 2017. Outcasts of Empire: Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border,” 1874–1945. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.41
    Barclay, P.D., 2017. Outcasts of Empire: Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border,” 1874–1945. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.41
    Barclay, P D. Outcasts of Empire: Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “savage Border,” 1874–1945. University of California Press, 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.41
    Barclay, P. D. (2017). Outcasts of Empire: Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border,” 1874–1945. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.41
    Barclay, Paul D.. 2017. Outcasts of Empire: Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “savage Border,” 1874–1945. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.41




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