Cette série explore le développement multiforme de la modernité dans la région Asie-Pacifique. Elle offre des aperçus profonds sur les transformations historiques, culturelles et sociales qui ont façonné cette zone dynamique. La collection examine comment les processus de modernisation mondiaux se sont manifestés et ont été adaptés dans des contextes uniques de l'Asie et du Pacifique. Elle s'adresse aux lecteurs intéressés par l'histoire, la sociologie et les affaires internationales.
Offers a profound reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobilization during the Asia-Pacific war. This book demonstrates that the United States and Japan became increasingly alike over the course of the war, perhaps most tellingly in their common attempts to disavow racism even as they reproduced it in new ways and forms.
How were concepts of the human's genus-being operative in the discourses of the Japanese empire? How did they inform the imagination and representation of modernity in colonial Korea? This title deals with these queries.
Examines how the concept of Korean woman underwent a radical transformation in Korea's public discourse during the years of Japanese colonialism. This book shows that as women moved out of traditional spheres to occupy positions outside the home, they encountered the pervasive control of colonial state, which sought to impose modernity on them.
A book-length study about Seoul during the colonial period, that challenges conventional nationalist paradigms by revealing the intersection of Korean and Japanese history in this important capital.
Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire
The book challenges the notion of "Asian American" as a cohesive historical category, highlighting the unique aspects of Japanese migration and settlement in the U.S. as citizens of an Asian imperial power. It offers an in-depth exploration of Japanese expansionism, tracing connections between California, Taiwan, and Manchuria. Through meticulous research, it examines the intricate racial politics involved in Japanese migration and colonialism, making it a significant contribution to multiple fields, including history, migration studies, and critical race studies.
Since the 1980s, arguments for a multicultural Japan have gained considerable currency against an entrenched myth of national homogeneity. This book enters this conversation with an ethnography of Japan's Buraku people.
Introduction : empires and indigenous peoples, global transformation and the limits of international society -- From wet diplomacy to scorched earth : the Taiwan expedition, the Guardline and the Wushe rebellion -- The long durée and the short circuit : gender, language and territory in the making of indigenous Taiwan -- Tangled up in red : textiles, trading posts and ethnic bifurcation in Taiwan -- The geobodies within a geobody : the visual economy of race-making and indigeneity