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Placing Empireexamines 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 role 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. The book thus 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.
Author(s): Kate McDonald
Edition: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 272
Cover......Page 1
Series page......Page 2
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Dedication......Page 8
Index......Page 10
List of Illustrations......Page 12
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 14
Introduction......Page 20
2 The New Territories......Page 69
1 Seeing Like the Nation......Page 44
Part Two The Geography of Cultural Pluralism......Page 100
3 Boundary Narratives......Page 102
4 Local Color......Page 122
5 Speaking Japanese......Page 154
Conclusion......Page 179
Table 3......Page 196
Notes......Page 200
Selected Bibliography......Page 240
Map 1......Page 39
Map 2......Page 40
Map 3......Page 41
Figure 1......Page 31
Figure 2......Page 56
Figure 3......Page 58
Figure 4......Page 84
Figure 5......Page 86
Figure 6......Page 88
Figure 7......Page 90
Figure 8......Page 123
Figure 9......Page 142
Figure 10......Page 145
Figure 11......Page 150
Figure 12......Page 177
Figure 13......Page 186
Figure 14......Page 187
Table 1......Page 78
Table 2......Page 79
