Demarcating Japan imperialism, islanders, and mobility, 1855-1884
Imperialists and Interpreters in the Tsushima Strait Region -- The Ryukyu Islanders and Their Altered Mobilities -- Violence, Conviviality, and Survival in Sakhalin -- And Then There Were None: The Kuril Islands -- "No Gain in Owning, No Pain in Losing": -- The Bonin Islands
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London
Harvard University Asia Center
2023
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| Schriftenreihe: | Harvard East Asian monographs
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Imperialists and Interpreters in the Tsushima Strait Region -- The Ryukyu Islanders and Their Altered Mobilities -- Violence, Conviviality, and Survival in Sakhalin -- And Then There Were None: The Kuril Islands -- "No Gain in Owning, No Pain in Losing": -- The Bonin Islands "In modern Japan's formative years, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, Tsushima, the Bonin Islands, and the Ryukyu Islands became the subject of inter-imperial negotiations, where empires nudged each other to secure their status with minimal costs rather than fighting a territorial scramble. Demarcating Japan argues that the transformation of border islands should be understood as an interconnected process, where inter-local referencing played a key role in the outcome-Japan's geographical expansion in the face of domineering extra-Asian empires" |
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| Beschreibung: | xvi, 266 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9780674291386 978-0-674-29138-6 |