1st Edition

Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia Studies in Taiwan-Japan Relations

Edited By Adam Clulow Copyright 2011
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that explores the intertwined histories of Taiwan and Japan across the long sweep of the early modern and modern periods. Drawing on new research by scholars from Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, it moves beyond the conventional focus on the mechanics of the Japanese colonial state to provide new... Read more

1. Onward, Christian Samurai! The Japanese Expeditions to Taiwan in 1609 and 1616  Stephen Turnbull, University of Leeds

2. A Fake Embassy, the Lord of Taiwan and Tokugawa Japan  Adam Clulow, Monash University

3. Japan’s First War Reporter: Kishida Ginkō and the Taiwan Expedition  Matthew Fraleigh, Brandeis University

4. Peddling Postcards and Selling Empire: Image-Making in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule  Paul Barclay, Lafayette College

5. Making the Japanese Empire: Nationality and Family Register in Taiwan, 1871-1899  Haruka Nomura, Australian National University, Australia

6. Pawns of Empire: Postwar Taiwan, Japan and the Dilemma of War Crimes  Barak Kushner, University of Cambridge, UK

Biography

Adam Clulow is Lecturer at the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies at Monash University, Australia.