Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire

ISBN-13: 9781108455220 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 299 str.

David R. Ambaras

Opis

Explores Sino-Japanese relations through encounters that took place between each country's people living at the margins of empire.

Recenzje

'Through vivid microhistories, Japan's Imperial Underworlds redraws the social and political boundaries of empire in modern East Asia. Ambaras deftly reveals how the movement of migrants, smugglers, pirates, and trafficked people between China and Japan - and their sensationalization in the popular press - created surprising cross-currents in the politics of Sino-Japanese relations during the years of Japanese imperial expansion.' Jordan Sand, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Spis treści

Introduction: border agents; 1. Treaty ports and traffickers: children's bodies, regional markets, and the making of national space; 2. In the Antlion's pit: abduction narratives and marriage migration between Japan and Fuqing; 3. Embodying the borderland in the Taiwan Strait: Nakamura Sueko as runaway woman and pirate Queen; 4. Borders in blood, water, and ink: Andō Sakan's intimate mappings of the South China Sea; 5. Epilogue: ruptures, returns, and re-openings.