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Outcasts of Empire
Paul D. Barclay
其他書名
Japan's Rule on Taiwan's "Savage Border," 1874-1945
出版
Univ of California Press
, 2018
主題
History / General
History / Asia / General
History / Asia / China
History / Asia / Japan
History / Asia / Central Asia
ISBN
0520296214
9780520296213
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dC45DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.
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.