Placing empire : travel and the social imagination in imperial Japan
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Placing empire : travel and the social imagination in imperial Japan
（A Philip E. Lilienthal book）（A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies）
University of California Press, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-244) and index
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Description
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. Placing Empire examines 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.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. The Geography of Civilization
1. Seeing Like the Nation
2. The New Territories
Part II. The Geography of Cultural Pluralism
3. Boundary Narratives
4. Local Color
5. Speaking Japanese
Conclusion
Appendix: Place Names
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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