Outcasts of Empire. Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border”, 1874-1945
Barclay, Paul D. Outcasts of empire : Japan’s rule on Taiwan’s “savage border”,1874-1945. Oakland, CA : University of California press, 2017. 322 p. ISBN : 9780520296213.
Version en ligne et en libre accès sur luminosoa.org : https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.41/
Présentation
Outcasts of Empire unveils the causes and consequences of capitalism’s failure to “batter down all Chinese walls” in modern Taiwan. Adopting micro- and macrohistorical perspectives, Paul D. Barclay argues that the interpreters, chiefs, and trading-post operators who mediated state-society relations on Taiwan’s “savage border” during successive Qing and Japanese regimes rose to prominence and faded to obscurity in concert with a series of “long nineteenth century” global transformations.
Superior firepower and large economic reserves ultimately enabled Japanese statesmen to discard mediators on the border and sideline a cohort of indigenous headmen who played both sides of the fence to maintain their chiefly status. Even with reluctant “allies” marginalized, however, the colonial state lacked sufficient resources to integrate Taiwan’s indigenes into its disciplinary apparatus. The colonial state therefore created the Indigenous Territory, which exists to this day as a legacy of Japanese imperialism, local initiatives, and the global commodification of culture.
Paul D. Barclay est professeur d’histoire au Lafayette College (Easton, Pennsylvanie). Il est aussi éditeur en chef de la East Asia Image Collection, une archive en ligne et en libre accès de matériaux historiques.
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Monique Abud (10 décembre 2017). Outcasts of Empire. Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border”, 1874-1945. ChinElectrodoc. Consulté le 15 octobre 2024 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/mqzm
