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Record Nr.

UNISA996333147003316

Autore

McDonald Kate <1981->

Titolo

Placing Empire : Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan / / Kate McDonald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2017

ISBN

0-520-96723-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 254 pages) : illustrations (some colour), maps; digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

306.4/819089956051

Soggetti

Tourism - Political aspects - Japan - 20th century

Tourism - Japan - History - 20th century

Taiwan Description and travel

Manchuria (China) Description and travel

Korea Description and travel

Japan Colonies Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Seeing like the nation -- The new territories -- Boundary narratives -- Local color -- Speaking Japanese.

Sommario/riassunto

"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 place 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. In so doing, it 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"--Provided by publisher.